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Members of churches can learn many skills in leadership. The problem I have with some local candidates is that they use “dog whistles” in their campaign literature to connect with an LDS audience. Words such as “Eagle Scout leader” and “active in my church” usually mean one thing in Utah: “I’m a Mormon.” Members of synagogues, mosques, and those who are active in atheist organizations would not dare to mention these affiliations.

Ted Ottinger Taylorsville

Elephant In the Room

Ray answers his own question in his first paragraph[“Mind the Gap,” Sept. 25, City Weekly]. Why does Utah continually vote Republican? His statement that Republicans favor making the gap even wider isn’t proven in a state run by Republicans. Utah has a minority of the superwealthy, our economy is one of the best in the country, and our unemployment rate is also one of the best in the country. Utah is almost strictly Republican and it’s showing in the results.

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Two Birds, Same Stone

With a couple of minor differences, I agree with Craig Smith’s letter “Vote Everyone Out” [Oct. 9, City Weekly]. Politicians generally are in office too long, pander to special interests that donate to their war chests, and ignore the electorate that they are supposed to represent. Smith chides Ray Hult [“Mind the Gap,” Sept. 25, City Weekly] for suggesting that we vote only for Democrats in November. There are 109 elected officials in the combined Senate and House in the Utah government, of which 84 are Republicans. If we voted for only Democrats, that would replace 80 percents of the incumbents currently serving. Seems that Smith and Hult are very close in agreeing on what should happen Nov. 4.

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As I type this, my daughter is readying herself for Comic Con. She’s wearing lots of pink and blue, including pink oven mitts, and saying, “Let’s make some tacos.” I dunno. I just think all the nerds like the idea of being able to dress up like Halloween for a long weekend. In the Sept. 4 Five Spot, Mitch Clegg was asked questions regarding cosplay harassment. I read it with

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Meet the Morons

The box-office maybe-hit Meet the Mormons profiles members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from around the world in an attempt to challenge Mormon stereotypes and misperceptions. This column has a smaller budget, so there’s no footage of Costa Rica or Nepal’s scenery, but it’s a similar opportunity to get to know a few of the people behind City Weekly.

Susan Kruithof, art director/ production manager I’ve been in the newspaper business for 21 years. I received a bachelor’s of fine arts with a concentration in graphic design from Indiana University. Back then, they had just come out with the first version of Quark Xpress. I started out as an account executive at a daily newspaper in my hometown and eventually ended up working for the weekly alternative newspaper. This December marks my 14th anniversary at City Weekly, and every week is still like Christmas as I see our papers roll off the presses. Making something that I can physically touch every week never ceases to amaze me, and I have made friendships here that will last my lifetime. Rachel Piper, editor I grew up Mormon in Davis County, and went to the University of Utah with plans to be a high school English teacher. Three years at my college paper changed my mind, and I decided to go into journalism despite the dire predictions of pretty much everyone in the world. Through a few strokes of luck, I ended up with a gig at City Weekly working with the best journalists in the state. My parents’ perception at the time was that City Weekly was “that paper with ... the ads.” The first cover story I helped edit was indeed about sex toys, but my mom has since become a cover-story devotee and my dad loves our Sudoku puzzle.

Christopher Westergard, advertising manager Growing up, I had to hide my weekly copy of the Phoenix New Times from my parents, since they are ultra-conservative and disapproved of their son reading a liberal alternative weekly. Flash forward to 2008, when, after a 60-day stint in rehab, I was job-hunting in Salt Lake City, and soon found myself selling ads and building a life here. I am the token non-drinking homosexual at the paper. City Weekly has become my adopted dysfunctional Utah family, and I am proud to live in such a beautiful, welcoming city.

Bill Frost, digital editor After dropping out of college upon realizing it was nothing like Animal House, Van Wilder or Good Will Hunting, Bill Frost bravely struck out into the world armed with only a minor grasp on the English language and an overblown sense of entitlement. He copes with his career demands and his humanitarian workload supporting Strippers Without Borders with an unwavering belief in the coming alien apocalypse, followed by a godless oblivion. Andy Sutcliffe, general manager Were it not for a terrible decision on the part of his great-great grandfather, who turned down William Hesketh Lever’s 1885 offer to go 50-50 on a new soap business, Andy Sutcliffe would never have had to work a day in his life. Instead, he’s advised George McGovern on how not to win a presidential election, conducted a helicopter trip with Jacques Cousteau, served as publisher/ GM of five alternative newspapers and has been John Saltas’ friend and colleague for more than 25 years. Scott Renshaw, A&E editor Fifteen years ago, I was a tragically underemployed freelancer, a refugee from California trying to find a place to belong in the Beehive State. Then John Saltas— desperate to fill a staff position at City Weekly’s Park City-based sister publication, Mountain Times—took a chance on me just because Roger Ebert had some nice things

B Y C I T Y W E E K LY S TA F F to say about my movie reviews. Now, long after Mountain Times disappeared, City Weekly is a part of who I am as a Utahn, providing a daily sense of mission: that I’m part of something that matters here, serving a readership that needs us to stick around.

Larry Carter, circulation manager Also known as a dad, husband, son and DJ, I’m a 14-year City Weekly vet. I manage the circulation department, ensuring papers are delivered to the correct locations in a timely manner, and oversee approximately 18 contract drivers from Logan to St. George. I’m not a Utah native but, “heck,” I’ve been here long enough to be considered a Utahn. I love soccer, my kids, NCIS, Criminal Minds, cooking, gardening, fishing and—oh yes—my wife. I don’t like Utah’s drivers or its politics, but rest assured, your City Weekly paper will be there on time and loo-kin’ good! Kolbie Stonehocker, music editor I learned I loved newspapers pretty early in life. When I was a student at Payson High School, I worked for the school newspaper, and I even had my own dorky little newspaper called The Courier, which I’d make in Microsoft Word and pass out to family. But it wasn’t until I’d been working at City Weekly for a year as a copy editor that I discovered I loved writing about music. I eventually became the music editor, and have had a blast getting to know all the dedicated musicians who make our local music scene great. Colin Wolf, staff writer When I was 4, I tried to put on a doll-size Cabbage Patch Kid astronaut costume and got my penis stuck in the zipper. My sisters, who were babysitting me at the time, had to phone our neighbors to come over and remove it with a pair of pliers. At that moment, I learned a lot about humility. Part of my job at City Weekly is to write about weird and humorous stories, and I always find it helpful to remember that no matter how easy it is to make fun of someone or something, I was once a dumb kid who got his carrot stuck in a doll outfit. CW

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Who would you rather be other than yourself? Jeremiah Smith: I love my life. The only person I would rather be is me after having been awarded the Nobel prize for cracking the Powerball code and becoming the biggest philanthropist of all time. I could then attend all the parties ever. .

Sarah Arnoff: When I was a kid, I wanted to be an airline pilot/chef/ice-cream man, so I’d give that combination a try in an alternate life. I’d fly around the world learning culinary crafts and tricks, perfecting my ice-cream-making skills to sell gourmet treats out of a rickety refrigerated van. Actually, that doesn’t sound like a bad thing to try out now. Eric Peterson: Being a police detective in homicide or drugs always seemed pretty intriguing, but I could never imagine myself starting out as a beat cop. I’m really bad when it comes to street directions and the makes of cars, and if I tried to give details to dispatch it would sound like: “Suspect in an old brown ... car, and he’s heading past that one McDonald’s, kinda by the freeway exit ... oh, piss, nevermind.” Paula Saltas: Is this a trick question? Nicolee Enright: If I wasn’t so afraid of the unknown/insecurity, I would like to get rid of everything I own and become a traveling hobo. There is just something very romantic about that: living day to day, not being tied down by anything.

Stephen Dark: Someone akin to Francis Mallmann, the Argentine restaurateur and author. A life dedicated to learning the complex relationship between fire and the raw materials of food, a kind of culinary gaucho celebrating the pleasure of meat seared over whiteashed coals at the end of the world.

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Someone on Facebook stated the real problem: “What would happen if ever yone did the same thing that I’m doing?” This was in response to a stor y in The Salt Lake Tribune about a man in Morgan who used a wood boiler to heat his home. Huffing and puff ing, his neighbors have now taken the issue to court, saying the smell permeates ever y thing and the smoke is affecting their health. But the real question is why the legislature refused to curtail woodburners, except on red-burn days. In rural Utah, it’s anything goes, and legislators have said they want to be sensitive to the rural lifestyle. Wood smoke may smell idyllic, but it’s toxic and full of particulates. And a University of Utah study found wood burning to be as signif icant as gasoline to air pollution along the Wasatch Front. Meanwhile, the man has moved to Mountain Green and the lawsuit continues.

Zero Stars On the Utah movie scene comes Meet the Mormons, a documentar y that ’s generated all kinds of reviews from across the nation, and came in at No. 10 in box office receipts. Joel Campbell, a professor at BY U, took issue with reviews by The New York Times, by The Salt Lake Tribune and others. “It’s interesting that f ilm reviewers have been effusive about documentaries which attack the LDS Church for its campaign against Proposition 8 in California,” he said. “Mormonism is still America’s acceptable bias.”

Dog Days No one cares if this was an election ploy because it was all about the animals—or more specifically, Justice for Geist. Salt Lake County Sherif f Jim Winder announced mandator y training for his officers on how to identif y behaviors in dogs and how to react appropriately. Salt Lake Police Chief Chris Burbank chose instead to focus on defending the actions of his officer, who shot and killed Geist. Even if the shooting were justified, the killing led to a call for a comprehensive look at how off icers handle these situations. The sheriff ’s department is doing just that, in cooperation with the Humane Societ y of Utah, because “the majorit y of people out there look at their pets as members of the family,” Humane Societ y Director Gene Baerschmidt told Good4Utah.

The Mormon Moment may have officially passed, but the Mormon Media Studies Symposium carries on. The event, in its third iteration, looks at the relationship between the media and Mormonism, including the recent decree of Elder David A. Bednar for church members to “flood the earth with gospel messages of truth.” BYU journalism professor Joel Campbell, who previously worked for the Deseret News and The Salt Lake Tribune, is a co-organizer of the symposium and gave City Weekly a preview of some of the topics that will be discussed at the free event (BYU Salt Lake Center, 3 Triad Center, 345 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, Oct. 17, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.).

What is the LDS Church’s relationship with journalism?

Over time, the church has tried to curry the favor of the media or, if they didn’t like what the media was doing, they did their own thing. The paper I’m giving is about a fascinating time in the 1850s when the church had openly embraced polygamy, and four of the Twelve Apostles were sent to four different cities to start newspapers. The whole reason for them to print these newspapers was to counter the negative media and to do their own message, to represent themselves. John Taylor, who later became a Mormon prophet, was sent to New York, and probably the most high-profile of the four papers was his, called The Mormon, in New York City. He set up shop in the shadow of The New York Times and the other big papers of the time, and actually got in verbal spars in his newspaper with them—they would print things about Mormons in their papers and he would respond to them. It was not in the muted way that they do today. The recent same-sex marriage decision got maybe four sentences out of the church, but John Taylor would go for the jugular. It was much more combative.

Why is the church now focusing on social media?

For a long time the church tried to convince journalists to write about them, to varying degrees of success, and now they’re saying, “We’re going to have members of the church go directly on social media.” Mormons have more tools to share not just their doctrine, but also their perception. I think that’s apparent with Meet the Mormons—doing your own show, controlling the message—and also the “sweep the world” thing of Elder Bednar. Meet the Mormons has the “we’re not as weird as you think we are” kinda message. Although, I’m not convinced that a lot of non-Mormons will take their time and spend their dime to go see it. But it’s certainly self-affirming for a lot of Mormons.

How will Utah Mormons receive The Book of Mormon musical when it comes to Salt Lake City in 2015?

I think it’ll be a mixed bag. A former student of mine is now a political editor at Buzzfeed. He covered the Romney campaign and during that time also kinda became the interpreter of Mormons. And he said it was a valentine to Mormons. The church was pretty mellow in its response, which was, “Yeah, it’s a fun-loving night at the theater, but it really doesn’t show reality.” It was sort of like, “We’ve arrived now, to the well-known point of being made fun of.” I think the Mormons will go see it. They might come down on the bad language, but I don’t think there’s going to be any protests or anything.

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Hmm ... I’d have to say Matt. Little can be said with certainty about singularities. However, we can reasonably surmise they would fuck up all our shit. Couple issues we need to get sorted out. The first is assuming a singularity could appear all by itself—a so-called naked singularity. While theorists haven’t been able to rule this out, you really don’t want it to be possible. The bigger issue is that you and Tim, at least, seem to be confusing a singularity with a black hole, a common mistake for space-time newbs. Allow me to explain. A black hole is a region of space where matter has been packed together so densely, its gravity is strong enough to keep light from escaping. Most people understand the general concept: you fall into a black hole, you get crushed to nothing, game over. But there’s more to it. Once a black hole has formed, nothing can keep the matter inside it from continuing to compress till it reaches infinite density: a singularity. At infinity, the usual laws of nature are out the window. This has given rise to much woolly speculation: n Our universe and everything in it was spawned by a singularity and may someday collapse back into one. n A singularity could become a socalled white hole, basically a black hole that runs backward in time. This turns the second law of thermodynamics on its head and allows anything to spring fully formed out of nothing—an asteroid, a planet, destructive cheese. You see where this is going: All our shit would be fucked up. To avoid such things, theorists have come up with the cosmic censorship hypothesis, which posits that singularities aren’t allowed to go around naked in our universe; they’re always inside black holes. Remember, no light escapes from a black hole. If a singularity is behaving in a disruptive manner inside, who cares? Out of sight, out of mind. Since we can’t usefully speculate about singularities, let’s turn our attention to black holes. What would happen if one were to appear in your living room? The black hole would have to be physically tiny to leave you outside its event horizon—the boundary past which once you’re in, you don’t get out (although see below). Even outside the event horizon you’d have to be far enough away that the

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black hole’s gravity wouldn’t immediately suck you in. Let’s assume you can resist a force equal to half of Earth’s gravitational pull, or 1/2 g. If the Earth was compressed into a black hole it would have a marble-sized event horizon, and would pull you into it with a force exceeding 1/2 g from a distance of about 5,600 miles. Maybe Donald Trump’s living room is that big. Not mine. A black hole the size of a hydrogen atom would contain as much mass as 1.6 times the water in all the Great Lakes and exert a 1/2-g pull from 2,000 feet away. Still no go.  A proton-sized black hole, though—that might work. It would weigh just 652 million tons, meaning you could approach as close as nine feet. What happens if you get closer? The unpleasant phenomenon known as spaghettification. You’ll be torn to shreds by exponentially increasing tidal forces as you’re sucked into the black hole—32 g at one foot, 1,024 g at two inches. How could a proton-scale black hole come to exist? The Earth weighs 10 trillion times as much, but gravity hasn’t collapsed it to that size. What we need are some special circumstances. Options: n When the universe was born, it’s thought many black holes of various masses were created, some of which may have shrunk to micro scale by now due to quantum thermal radiation, as predicted by Stephen Hawking in 1974. The likelihood of one drifting to Earth, much less showing up in your living room, is on the order of once every 10 million years. n Powerful particle accelerators could smash subatomic particles together, creating a tiny region of super high density. But the black holes thereby created would evaporate almost instantaneously. In short, the odds of a close encounter with a black hole are vanishingly small. However, Hawking in a recent paper says black holes “should be redefined as metastable bound states of the gravitational field,” which I take to mean they may not necessarily be the one-way ticket to oblivion previously assumed. In other words, whatever the quotidian vicissitudes, longterm there’s hope for our shit. Send questions to Cecil via StraightDope. com or write him c/o Chicago Reader, 350 N. Orleans, Chicago 60654.

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Halo effect of Pac-12 membership boosts U’s spending, budgets. By Colby Frazier cfrazier@cityweekly.net @colbyfrazierlp A few years ago, the University of Michigan wouldn’t pick up the phone when University of Utah Athletic Director Chris Hill would call. The Wolverines, which have the largest football stadium and one of the most storied college football programs in the land, wouldn’t even return Hill’s messages. “There is absolutely zero possibility of Michigan coming to play at the University of Utah five years ago,” Hill says. “Zero.” A lot has changed since then for Hill and the University of Utah. The school is now four years into its relationship with the Pac-12 Conference. And, next year, none other than the Michigan Wolverines are going to visit RiceEccles Stadium for a game of pigskin. “I think there’s a real halo effect by being in the Pac-12,” says Fred C. Esplin, vice president of university relations. “If your peers are Stanford and USC and Cal and Washington and these folks, it makes a difference.” There is little question that the U’s 2010 admittance into the Pac-12 has afforded it the opportunity to play more high-profile teams. The U now faces off against USC, UCLA, Stanford and Oregon instead of Wyoming, New Mexico, San Diego State and Air Force. Long-time rivalries against BYU and Utah State have also been jettisoned, at least temporarily. The decision not to play Utah State during the 2014 football season cost the U $500,000. Pac-12 membership also brings with it the perception that, now that the school is part of a big-time club, it must somehow keep up with the other members of that club in what it offers to students, administrators and alumni, whether that’s new buildings or more rigorous academic standards. Esplin says he refers to this as being “Pac-12 ready.” The easiest way to gauge this is through the size of the U’s bank account. In 2006, the U unveiled a capital campaign called “Together We Reach.” During the nine years of the campaign, which concluded this year, the U raised $1.65 billion. In 2008, 61,998 individuals

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“We’re not afraid of high expectations, and we now are in a position to have as a high of expectations as you can possibly have.”

contributed to the campaign. In 2014, 134,469 donors gave money. Esplin says that from the moment the U became a Pac-12 member, giving shot through the roof. “There’s no question at all in my mind that joining the Pac-12 really helped that,” Esplin says. “It is very, very clear that the pride the alumni feel, not just the fans, not just athletic fans, what the alumni feel for the university, was enhanced because of that.” University administrators say that simply by being associated with the likes of Stanford and UC Berkeley, the University of Utah has, and will continue to, become a more distinguished institution in all aspects. Ruth Watkins, vice president of academic affairs, says the U has been able to recruit great academic talent in recent years “in all seriousness, because we’re a Pac-12 school.” Watkins says the U, even when it was a member of the Mountain West Conference, was ahead of several of its peer institutions in categories like research. But in the ever-growing competitive world of academia, being a member of the Pac-12 can cast a tangible spell upon would-be faculty. “It’s very, very positive for the institution,” she says. “What I can tell you is that it gets us into a little different dialogue and conversation among big players in the country.” The U’s athletic teams now play big-time California teams USC, UCLA, Stanford and Berkeley on a regular basis, and often on national television. Herein lies the academic importance, perhaps, of being associated with a prominent athletic league: At three different student-recruiting events in California last year, Watkins says, she heard from many students that the U’s Pac-12 membership was important to them. Watkins says Pac-12 membership, at least partly, has also enabled the U’s student body to diversify. School statistics show that in 2013, the percentage of freshman students from the United States who were minorities was 29 percent, up from 18 percent in 2008. Similar rises were seen in freshman from states other than Utah, with the number jumping to 25 percent in 2013 from 18 percent in 2008. The campus landscape itself has seen the effects of the U’s efforts to become more distinguished. During the Together We Reach campaign, 37 construction projects either commenced or were concluded on campus to the tune of $1.5 billion. A handful of these were new and improved athletic facilities, including a $30 million football center, $1.8 million strength and conditioning center and a $23 million basketball center. Since entering the Pac-12, interest

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$50,000. If the Utes participate in a bowl playoff game, he receives $200,000. And if the Utes win one of these bowl games, the coach gets an additional $100,000. For a lowlier bowl, Whittingham gets two months’ base salary, and for being named national coach of the year, as he was in 2008, he receives $75,000. All of this talk about money brings the conversation right back to Michigan—or, rather, the teams that the U chose to play or not to play during the current football season. Where the U once upon a time had to beg to play teams like Michigan, it now has the resources to pay lower-level teams large chunks of money to travel to Salt Lake City and see what it’s like to get beaten by a Pac-12 team. This year, the U paid Idaho State $400,000 to fill its opening-game slot. In week No. 2, it paid Fresno State $300,000 to roll into town. The Utes can also pay teams they don’t want to play anymore. This year, the Utes—in a buyout of a contract—paid the formidable Utah State Aggies half a million dollars to stay away from Salt Lake City. Athletically, the U’s first four years in the conference have been a roller coaster, replete with defeat and struggle. The entire athletic department has snagged only one conference championship, in women’s gymnastics for the 2014 season. In its first three full seasons in the Pac-12, the Utes’ football squad garnered records of 8-5, 5-7 and 5-7, but are off to a 4-1 run this season with Oct. 4’s marquee victory over UCLA, then ranked No. 8. For Hill, the lack of success thus far in terms of brass in the trophy room isn’t nearly as important as the simple fact that the University of Utah is now in an elite club that he and other university administrators have no doubt will rub off on the U. “The difference now is we have the opportunity to compete at the highest level—we jumped the Grand Canyon,” Hill says. “We’re not afraid of high expectations, and we now are in a position to have as a high of expectations as you can possibly have.” CW

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in athletics, especially football, has grown. In 2008, the football team generated $16.4 million in revenue, partly by selling $5.4 million in tickets and garnering $2.7 million in private contributions from donors. In the 2012-13 school year, it raked in $29.2 million in revenue, selling $9.9 million in tickets and receiving just under $6 million from donors. Pac-12 membership hasn’t yet fully translated into profits, however, as the athletic department’s budget has also jumped sharply. In 2008, it spent $31.3 million on athletics, with revenues of $32 million. In the 2012-2013 school year—the most recent for which statistics exist—the department spent $51.4 million but brought in $46.8 million in revenue, resulting in a $4.5 million deficit. But for its first two years in the conference, the U received just half the amount of the Pac-12’s robust television contracts that long-time members of the Pac-12 receive. In 2013-2014, it raked in three-quarters of the total; this year, and going forward, it will receive the full allotment—roughly $18 million. If Utah had remained in the Mountain West Conference, it would be receiving around $4 million in television revenue. Since college football players still don’t get paid, the largest benefactor of this Pac-12 cash has been head football coach Kyle Whittingham, Utah’s highest paid public employee. In 2008, Whittingham’s base salary was $200,000, and he reaped $270,000 from money the school made on broadcasting and television contracts. When his contract was extended in 2011, Whittingham’s base salary was jacked up to $440,000, with broadcasting money leaping to $470,000. Over the duration of his contract, Whittingham also gets $605,000 for speaking engagements and for participating in fundraising activities. But the real dough f lows when Whittingham’s team plays well. When the Utes recently broke into the Associated Press’ Top 25 poll, Whittingham got a $10,000 bonus. If the Utes finish the season ranked in a poll, he’ll take home

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Security guards at a Seattle department store had no trouble spotting a shoplifter. She was carrying 23 purses and handbags. When confronted, the woman dropped the items and ran. Police said the suspect re-entered the store by another entrance and grabbed eight more handbags and purses. A security guard stopped and handcuffed her when she tried leaving by the same door as the first time. (Seattle’s KOMO-TV)

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n Surveillance video showed two men breaking into a tattoo parlor in Frederick, Md. One man had a large, distinct tattoo on his forearm that the storeowner recognized as one he had done a month earlier. The customer was Max M. Goransson, 20. He refused to give a DNA sample, but police got one from water bottle they gave him after they arrested him. Goransson’s DNA matched that found on a flashlight the suspect left at the scene. (The Frederick News-Post)

Future Friend A robot designed to read and respond to human emotions will be sold at Sprint Corp. stores in the United States by next summer. Marketed by SoftBank Corp., the 4-foot-tall humanoid, named Pepper, dances, tells jokes and estimates human emotions based on observed expressions. SoftBank chairman Mayayoshi Son said the company is investing in robotics to boost Japan’s domestic production, adding that he expects to replace 90 million jobs with 30 million robots. (Bloomberg News)

Second-Amendment Follies Eight least-used dating services and websites:

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George Byrd IV, 31, denied shooting through a neighbor’s window in Middletown, Pa., but then told police he did fire the gun, but only because he was unfamiliar with guns and thought firing it was the only way to unload it. (Bucks County Courier Times) n A restaurant in Port Allen, La., began offering a 10 percent discount to customers who bring their guns with them. “If you have a gun on you, I’m going to give you a discount,” Kevin Cox, owner of Bergeron’s Restaurant, said, hoping the move will discourage robbers. “As long as everybody has a gun, we’re all the same size.” (Baton Rouge’s WVLA-TV)

Second Amendment vs. First Amendment A firing range in Hot Springs, Ark., banned Muslims. “This is not a coffee and doughnut shop,” Jan Morgan, owner of the Gun Cave Indoor Firing Range, blogged. “People are shooting guns in close proximity to each other, so my patrons depend on me and my discretion regarding who I allow to shoot beside them. Why would I want to rent or sell a gun and hand ammunition to someone who aligns himself with a religion that commands him to kill me?” (Arkansas Times)

Let This Be a Lesson A judge in Columbus, Ohio, who teaches local high-school students the dangers of drunk driving by moving an actual drunkdriving trial to the school, was charged with drunk driving. Police said Perry County Judge Dean L. Wilson, 60, was driving a

BY R O L A N D S W E E T Mercedes-Benz loaner when he sideswiped a bus and kept driving until officers stopped him. He is on record as taking pride in helping deter students from drinking & driving by viewing the trials, which have become a tradition and are scheduled each year to coincide with prom season. Wilson refused to take a breath test. (The Columbus Dispatch)

Crises of the Week The latest food found to cause cancer is toast, especially dark toast or worse, burned. The European Food Safety Authority identified the culprit as acrylamide, a chemical that forms when certain starchy foods are baked, fried or roasted at high temperatures to make them crispy and crunchy and to add taste. It’s found mainly in potato chips, soft and crispy breads, cookies, crackers, cakes, cereals and instant coffee. The agency advised eating toast only when it is light yellow. (Britain’s Daily Mail) n Proliferating traffic cameras in the District of Columbia have been so effective at reducing infractions that the city faces a $70 million revenue shortfall because the city isn’t issuing enough red-light and speeding tickets. D.C. Council Chairman Phil Mendelson blamed local leaders for becoming too dependent on ticket revenue to balance the city’s budget. (The Washington Post)

Swept Away Mark John Tucker, 54, was seriously injured when he was run over by a street sweeper that he was operating. Police in St. Petersburg, Fla., said Tucker fell when the vehicle began moving while he was trying to climb onto it. The street sweeper continued moving and ran over his upper body. (Tampa’s WFLA-TV)

Buyer’s Remorse Police in Japan’s Kyoto Prefecture visited the homes of hundreds of customers who bought shoes with built-in upskirt cameras, and requested they voluntarily surrender the shoes and fill out a “disposal request,” which asked them to state why they purchased the shoes. Police obtained a list of about 1,500 buyers when they raided the company that specializes in voyeuristic footwear. A 26-year-old company manager was fined $4,500 for violating Japan’s nuisance prevention ordinance. (United Press International)

Join the Club Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben S. Bernake, 60, who receives $250,000 per speaking engagement, told an audience at a conference in Chicago that he recently tried to refinance his mortgage but “was unsuccessful in doing so.” (Bloomberg News)

The Customer Always Pays When Minnesota raised its minimum wage 75 cents, businesses raised prices to offset the added expense, but Stillwater’s Oasis Café began adding 35 cents to each check instead. “We’re just doing what we have to do,” manager Colin Orcutt said of the restaurant’s “minimum wage fee.” (Minneapolis’s Star Tribune) Compiled from the press reports by Roland Sweet. Authentication on demand.

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Fight Hunger and Stop Violence This week, help raise money for Real Food Rising, a group taking on the double-whammy of increasing access to healthy food in Utah and also doing outreach and development with youth. Later, you can celebrate the Y WCA of Utah’s Week Against Violence. You can also check out a Salt Lake County Open House meeting to discuss how to improve trails along the Jordan River.

Real Food Rising Fundraiser Thursday, Oct. 16

Real Food Rising, the youth-farming program of Utahns Against Hunger, is hosting a fall celebration and fundraiser at the Rico Warehouse. The event’s live music, drinks and the most excellent victuals catered by Rico will be a nice complement to supporting the good work Real Food Rising does to promote sustainable agriculture and the lives of young people in the community. Tickets are $45 in advance or $55 at the door. Rico Warehouse, 545 W. 700 South, 801-328-2561, Oct. 16, 6-9 p.m., UAH.org

YWCA Week Against Violence Oct. 20-Oct. 23

Whether violence comes from the barrel of a gun or the fists of a spouse, the damage is devastating not only to individuals but also communities. This week, join the Y WCA in a series of events raising awareness of gun and domestic violence. Their will also be a screening of Brave Miss World, about Linor Abargil, who was crowned Miss World only six weeks after she was abducted and raped, and her crusade on behalf of sexual-assault victims. Multiple events and locations. For more info, contact the Y WCA of Utah at 801-537-8604, SaltLakeCity@ Y WCA.com or visit http://citywk. ly/1njOHBm

Jordan River Trail Master Plan Tuesday, Oct. 21

The Jordan River runs right through the urban heart of Salt Lake County, and the county wants your input on what trail alignments you would like to see to make the river accessible for you and your family. Check out the proposals and speak up for the river and the best course to preserve easy access to it. Utah Olympic Oval, 5662 S. Cougar Lane, Kearns, 801-474-3300, Oct. 21, 6:30 p.m., SLCOEastWestTrails.org

Sun Block

Critics say Rocky Mountain Power’s coal addiction makes the utility hell-bent on stalling clean energy in Utah. By Eric S. Peterson epeterson@cityweekly.net

In a 1995 episode of

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The Simpsons, Mr. Burns stares grimly out the window of the office of his nuclear power plant as he explains to his assistant Waylon Smithers that he cannot yet be proud of his company’s success, “not while my greatest nemesis still provides our customers with free light, heat and energy. I call this enemy ... the sun.” Burns then shows his assistant his latest plan to corner the Springfield energy market: a giant metallic fan that would block out the sun and cast the town in perpetual darkness. “Since the beginning of time, man has yearned to destroy the sun. I will do the next best thing—block it out!” Burns says proudly, ignoring Smithers’ concerns that the project will destroy all plant life, make the town sundial useless and that “owls will deafen us with their ceaseless hooting.” Literally blocking out the sun may be possible only in a cartoon, but clean-energy advocates say that in real life, Rocky Mountain Power, a utility that in Utah operates as a regulated monopoly, can block the development of renewable energy projects in the state—and without having to spend a fortune building a giant sun shield. Rocky Mountain Power has to ask the Public Service Commission to approve increased rates and fees, such as when RMP recently attempted to impose a $4.25 net metering fee on the 2,000-plus Utahns who have solar panels installed on their homes. The fee was rejected in August by the Public Service Commission, but supporters of clean energy in Utah have more battles to fight. RMP is involved in multiple skirmishes with clean-energy advocates over proposals to set the amount RMP would be required to pay renewable-energy producers who want to use RMP’s grid to transmit clean power. If RMP can convince the Public Service Commission to set those costs low enough, it could effectively stall the development of renewable-energy projects by making them too costly to develop. “We probably have close to 450 or 500 megawatts [of renewables]—which is close to the capacity of a coal plant—in contracts that have been signed,” says Sarah Wright, head of the advocacy group Utah Clean Energy. Though the contracts have been signed, the projects are in a holding pattern, she says, while the group waits to see what price they will get for their energy before they can be developed. “If the changes that Rocky Mountain Power is proposing take place, it will basically stop all that development,” Wright says. David Eskelsen, a spokesman for RMP, challenges the idea that solar will be stopped. He cites the company’s ownership of 1,000 megawatts of wind power and 800 megawatts purchased from other developers as proof that RMP cares about clean energy. “I can’t think of an organization that has done more to bring renewable energy to Utah customers than Rocky Mountain Power,” Eskelsen writes via e-mail. But, he adds, customers need reliable power, no matter the source. “We agree that many customers want renewable options,” Eskelsen says. “Customer opinion is also clear that high reliability and reasonable price are still very important, so renewable sources must be competitively priced.” And though clean air is becoming more of a priority for average Utahns, economic development remains a greater concern for Utah’s government officials. RMP has a government-regulated monopoly on power production in Utah, and advocates say the company’s clout among coal-friendly politicos also gives it a near monopoly of political power when it comes to ensuring Utah continues to be fired up by fossil fuels. In other states, RMP and its parent company, PacifiCorp, has had to meet requirements such as setting standards for providing a certain amount of renewable energy in its

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–Christopher Thomas, director of HEAL Utah

portfolios (visit CityWeekly.net to see a map of Rocky Mountain Power’s renewable energy standards for the states it operates in). In California, the company’s portfolio must be 33 percent renewable by 2020. But in Utah, where the bottom line is jobs and economic development, RMP simply has a renewable portfolio “goal” of 20 percent by 2025. When the goal was set in 2008, the state allowed the utility to retroactively count renewable energy produced by a hydropower project going back to 1995 as part of that 20 percent. The goal also includes a caveat: The 20 percent must be “cost effective,” meaning the utility can look forward to kudos from the state if it meets that goal, and shrug its shoulders if it doesn’t. Critics say that in addition to the state deciding not to tie down the free market by requiring RMP to clean up its portfolio, few in the government are concerned that RMP may be blocking development of renewable, profitable energy here in Utah, one chunk of coal at a time.

Sun Rush Ros “Rocco” Vrba has been in the clean energy business since 2006, working on six windfarms for RMP and on more than 50 renewable energy projects across the country, eight of which are now fully operational and providing electricity to utilities from coast to coast. He’s currently working to develop renewable projects in Utah, and says the state could be the site of a potential clean-energy bonanza. “We have an amazing solar opportunity in Utah,” Vrba says. “Absolutely amazing.” Vrba says there’s plenty of potential profit in solar energy, since Utah’s geography blesses the state with high temperatures, a dry climate and clear skies. More

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“Rocky Mountain Power is the gatekeeper. So if they don’t want to play in that arena, we all suffer as a consequence.”

than once, he says, he’s seen a windmill on a barren patch of dirt give a hardscrabble community an economic shot in the arm. Much like traditional energy sources, Vrba says, solar and other clean-energy projects present the greatest opportunities to rural communities that may be lacking in jobs and economic development. It’s not just green believers like Vrba who see a sun rush on the horizon. In March 2014, the investment behemoth Citigroup released a report heralding the beginning of the “Age of Renewables.” The report says the market is primed for renewables because their costs are coming down and, in the long run, the resources provide stability for ratepayers and investors that carbon can’t keep up with, given increasing regulations and the immense volatility of fossil-fuel commodities. The report says that renewable costs “continue to decline and are increasingly competitive with natural gas peakers,” in reference to the natural-gas plants that switch on during periods of high energy demand. The report lauded a decrease in the price of photovoltaic solar panels and a longer, more stable life cycle of energy produced by renewables. According to a July 1, 2014, report by Bloomberg Energy News Finance, “Solar power will top clean energy installations in every region over the next decade and a half.” And it won’t be because of government assistance propping up the industry; public incentives actually have been scaled back. Instead, a “glut of solar and wind manufacturing capacity” and other innovations will help provide an estimated 800 gigawatts of rooftop and utility-scale energy by the year 2030. “This will be driven by economics, not subsidies, as our analysis suggests that solar will be fully competitive with other power sources by 2020,” the Bloomberg report states. While the Bloomberg report credits Asia as having the largest private-sector commitment to renewables, it also sees a similar trend in the United States. Vrba says it’s an opportunity not to be missed; Utah needs to wake up and see the sunshine. “I think it’s important we continue to create a revenue base in our home state, and this is one of the forms of natural resources that is available to us,” Vrba says. “I think it’s not different than oil and gas may have been at the early part of the century. Renewables has its time

now, and it’s becoming more and more sought after. It just makes simple sense.” Sarah Wright of Utah Clean Energy says ratepayers are hungry for renewable projects because they’re a safe and stable bet going into the future. After the cost of steel in the ground and panels pointed at the sky or windmill blades in the air, they have no “fuel” costs, and maintenance costs are relatively flat compared to fossil fuels, providing rate stability for the energy customer. “It’s like having a bond in your investment portfolio,” Wright says. “You build solar and you know what it’s going to cost today and you know what it’s going to cost 20 years from today.” While that may keep coins in the pockets of average homeowners, it doesn’t exactly profit a utility like Rocky Mountain Power, which has almost all of its eggs in the carbon basket. RMP’s current energy mix—the energy it sells its customers—is 65 percent coal and 10 percent natural gas, and that doesn’t count the market purchases it makes, which are often natural gas as well.

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As new renewables are breaking the energy mold, energy regulations are rooted in the past just as much as the businesses that have relied on fossil fuels for generations to produce power for customers and profits for shareholders. “Things are changing dramatically right now, and our regulatory framework has not caught up,” Wright says. “So we don’t have the tools in the toolbox to drive more renewable-energy development.” In Utah, RMP has to get the green light from the Public Service Commission before the company can change rates. It’s before this body that RMP is currently engaged in a few key disputes that advocates for alternative energy say could block renewable development in the state. For a layperson, the ins and outs of the regulatory proceedings that affect RMP are as complex as wires in an electrical box. And Utah Clean Energy, the nonprofit advocacy group that keeps a close watch on RMP, worries that because the issues are so complicated, the public doesn’t appreciate the importance of what’s at stake, especially in the matters currently before the PSC: the two “avoided cost” dockets regarding pricing for small and large renewable-energy facilities. To understand that, one needs to back up to 1973— a year in which the United States felt the stinging blow of an oil embargo placed on the country by the Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries in retaliation for America supplying Israel with weapons following conflicts between the nation and Egypt. The price of oil jumped from $3 to $12 a barrel by the embargo’s end, and the U.S. economy was dealt a long-term blow. In 1978, Congress decided to pass the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act to encourage energy efficiency and the development of renewable energy inside the nation’s borders. PURPA essentially requires existing utilities to purchase renewable energy produced by small independent energy developers and transmit that energy through their existing grids and infrastructures. But there’s a catch: The price the utility pays for this clean energy has to be equivalent to the price of the

“I think it’s not different than oil and gas may have been at the early part of the century. Renewables has its time now, and it’s becoming more and more sought after. It just makes simple sense.”

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Though their go-to fuel is burned dark and dirty, RMP and PacifiCorp have nevertheless received national recognition for dedication to renewable efforts through their Blue Sky program. In 2013, Rocky Mountain Power won an award for Best Marketing Campaign by the Green Power Leadership Awards, which is sponsored by the Center for Resource Solutions and the EPA.

Blue Skies Over Coal Country

The program allows RMP’s utility customers to voluntarily pay extra on their bills to support clean energy. For $1.95, customers can support the purchase of a 100-kilowatt-hour block of clean energy—again produced by outside companies and used by utilities that have nothing to do with RMP—who then sell the credit to RMP. The program has been touted by the company at farmers markets, parades and festivals, and has garnered enormous support as a result. As of Aug. 31, there were 39,917 Blue Sky participants in Utah, with 45,296 total participants across Utah, Idaho and Wyoming, where RMP operates. RMP’s Eskelsen says that cash grants from the program have helped develop 101 small-scale solar projects in Utah that, combined, produce about 3,657 megawatt hours per year (the average residential home uses about 9 megawatt hours per year). These projects

Another dispute will be decided by the PSC on Oct. 29 over proposed fees applicable to 2012 legislation sponsored by Sen. Mark Madsen, R-Eagle Mountain, that’s been dubbed the “eBay bill.” Thanks to economic incentives, eBay built a 240,000-square-foot facility in Draper that has brought hundreds of jobs to the area. But eBay has corporation-wide sustainability goals that encourage its facilities to use green energy for their operations, and Draper’s facility was in a bind since it couldn’t purchase green power through RMP. After two years of work, Madsen was able to pass a bill allowing large facilities like eBay’s to purchase clean energy through a third party that would then be transmitted to them using RMPs infrastructure. That has left the PSC to decide what is fair for RMP to charge for acting as a go-between for a clean-energy provider and a large business or facility that wants the energy. Currently, RMP is proposing multiple charges, including a monthly administrative fee of $260 per meter for the arrangement. The fee is an improvement from RMP’s earlier proposal of $450, but it’s still burdensome, advocates say, especially when one considers that it’s comparable to the customer charges in RMP’s Schedule 9 tier, such as the $247 charge for refineries that might be running 24 hours a day. And customer charges are charged only once, whereas RMP’s administrative fee would be $260 per month per meter. If a university wanted to use clean energy through the proposal and had 10 meters on its campus, it would pay $2,600 per month in administrative fees alone. In general, Hayes says, Utah Clean Energy worries that RMP’s proposal doesn’t appropriately value what renewable energy provides to RMP’s system. And the administrative fees, she says, could also make it just too costly for customers to be able to afford the clean energy contracts. “It’s still questionable whether this is going to create a workable solution for customers wanting to take advantage of the eBay bill,” Hayes says. Eskelsen says the charge is designed to cover the “labor intensive” task of ensuring these customers’ costs aren’t spread to regular ratepayers. He points out that the Division of Public Utilities, a branch within the Governor’s Department of Commerce, has supported RMP’s fee calculation.

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traditional energy resource. So, hypothetically, if a solar farm wants to sell energy that’s worth $100 a megawatt hour, but RMP pays $50 a megawatt hour for primarily coal-based energy, RMP would have to pay only $50 for the renewable energy. Figuring out how much its traditional resources will cost in the future gets into the utility’s Integrated Resource Plan, a roadmap that looks two decades into the future at where the utility will acquire its resources during that time. Rocky Mountain Power’s 2013 Integrated Resource Plan goes through a variety of projections of what the future will look like for the resources needed to keep the lights on for customers in the next 20 years. One of the scenarios imagines a world in which there are no carbon restraints—a wildly alternate universe where there’s stability and peace in the Middle East and hunky-dory relations with Russia, the world’s largest extractor of natural gas. In RMP’s projections for this world, the Environmental Protection Agency is no longer requiring power plants across the country to cut carbon-dioxide emissions roughly 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030, and has halted plans to finalize coal-ash regulations that would also affect RMP, as City Weekly wrote about in the May 21 cover story “Ashes to Ashes.” RMP used this bizarro-world scenario as the basis for the dollar amount it proposes to pay to renewable developers for the “avoided cost” of not using RMP’s traditional resources. Utah Clean Energy says that by using this estimate, RMP is setting the bar so low that clean-energy developers can’t financially afford to develop their projects. There are realistic assumptions in Rocky Mountain Power’s IRP that anticipate carbon constraints and new regulations, but Sophie Hayes, Utah Clean Energy’s attorney, says the company doesn’t use these regulations in calculations of how much it should pay renewables for their power. “So they’re saying, ‘We’re planning with these assumptions, but when calculating avoided-cost prices, we’re just going to take out all of these assumptions,’ ” Hayes says. “The effect is they are incrementally ratcheting down the price they’re willing to pay for renewable energy.” RMP’s Eskelsen, however, defers to the judgment of the PSC and says that the negotiated price will not block solar development. “The purpose of the PSC hearing and determination is to ensure a fair price for customers, who must pay electric rates,” Eskelsen writes. “We disagree that it makes it ‘impossible’ for renewable developers to operate. In fact, the company has recently signed several power-purchase agreements from qualifying facilities and has requests for pricing on many others.” Advocates like Wright say that RMP can sign as many power purchase agreements as they like, but if the price the utility will pay for clean energy is too low, then solar projects will never be able to get up and running. The commission will likely issue an order on Schedule 37—which deals with avoided costs for smaller renewable facilities with a capacity of 3 megawatts or less—by the end of October. Changes to Schedule 38—dealing with costs for renewable facilities with a capacity of more than 3 megawatts—will be evaluated again this winter, but an order may not be finalized until 2015.

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Join us for an evening of dance, creativity, and awareness for Clean Air in Utah. Teaming up with the non-profit organization Western Resource Advocates and working directly with their clean air efforts, we present an evening of celebration with passionate individuals dedicated to and working towards clean air. For one night only, over 50 of the state’s most talented dancers will share the stage, dancing 18 routines – from breakdancing to classical ballet – to address the critical issue of air quality in Utah. Combined with live musical entertainment and involvement of local salons to produce a visually captivating aesthetic, this evening is sure to leave the audience in awe and inspired.

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VIP Dinner, 5:00pm • General Public, 6:00pm

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upgrading its existing coal-fired plants. While Utah’s Public Service Commission did not find fault in these decisions, in July, Oregon’s Public Utility Commission criticized PacifiCorp for moving ahead with upgrades to two of the units at its Jim Bridger coal plant in Wyoming and one unit at the Hunter coal plant in Utah. The Oregon commission saw the company’s decision to upgrade its coal plants in the face of spiking carbon costs likely to result from looming federal regulations as unfair to the utility’s customers. In the case of the units in Wyoming, the Oregon commission found that the utility failed to consider that retiring the units could be preferable to adding costly selective catalytic reduction (SCR) upgrades. The commission pointed out that one study showed “that it is more economical to retire Bridger 3 and 4 than to install the SCR equipment.” Eskelsen points out that utility regulators in Utah and Wyoming, however, approved the upgrade decisions as being in the public interest and vital to the plants that are “existing, low-cost resources, absolutely needed to provide service to customers.” Vrba says that RMP and PacifiCorp can’t quit coal because they’ve made major investments into the resource and don’t want to give up on it while realizing their investments in the coal infrastructure— whether that’s coal plants, mines or even railroads carrying the commodity. And if they own all the infrastructure, then they can only make profit off of it. But that doesn’t change the fact that ratepayers will be on the hook for increased prices when renewables are needed and the price of fossil-fuels go up. But in a regulated monopoly like RMP has in Utah, where else are customers going to get their power? Eskelsen says RMP is committed to keeping prices reasonable for customers and points out that in 2008, the company decided against building any future coal plants. Though the battles in the market come down to dollars and cents, in the long run, HEAL’s Thomas says, it comes down to the quality of the air and the health of all Utahns who breathe it, with the grit in the air directly affected by the polluting effects of RMP’s favored fossil fuels. RMP, he says, has outsized power to decide what energy projects can use their grid and, in essence, what clean-energy projects get built—or not. “Rocky Mountain Power is the gatekeeper,” Thomas says. “So if they don’t want to play in that arena, we all suffer as a consequence.” CW

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have brought nice shiny solar panels to schools and churches across the state. One of these solar projects was at the church that Christopher Thomas, director of HEAL Utah, attends. While Thomas is a proud supporter of the Blue Sky program, he’s not ecstatic about the spin that he says RMP gives it. “RMP comes out to do this press event and says, ‘We’re giving you this money to do solar,’ ” Thomas says. “Rocky Mountain Power is writing the check, but it’s not their money; it’s [customers’] money,” Thomas says. As for the 3,657 megawatt hours of renewables, Thomas points out that while that may seem like a big number, that as a percent of the total megawatt-hours that PacifiCorp sells, its actually less than half of a thousandth of a percent. And if Blue Sky is so popular, Thomas asks, wouldn’t that give RMP the hint that its customers want more renewables, and ones that are actually generated here in Utah? After all, RMP could profit from renewables similar to the way it profits from its fossilfuel facilities. According to energy regulations, any infrastructure RMP builds for power— whether dirty energy or clean—authorizes 10 percent return on the investment for the utility, depending on the energy sold, over a set period of time. Basically, if the utility builds its own facilities, it should see steady return over time on that investment. Eskelsen says that it’s incorrect to say that RMP is only devoted to coal and fossil fuels, given the Wyoming wind farm it owns and the fact that in 1984, it invested in a geothermal plant in Milford, Utah, that was expanded as recently as 2007. In 2013, the company also announced a $50 million commitment to its solar-incentive program over five years. The program pays cash incentives for the installation of small-scale solar panels on the roofs of the homes and businesses of applicants based on an annual lottery. But as for why RMP isn’t building its own renewable projects and reaping the authorized return on investments, Eskelsen says it’s a matter of need. The company doesn’t need another facility, he says, and to build one would result in unnecessary rate increases for customers. “The company’s long-range planning does not indicate a need for a new power plant of any type for about the next 10 years,” Eskelsen says, adding that the company expects to be able to meet customer demands through market purchases and new energy efficiencies. Meanwhile, RMP’s parent company PacifiCorp has decided to spend billions

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Abstract art often is given explicit meanings by its creators, who tell stories through painterly symbols. For viewers, that same art might resonate in a different way with their own dreams, hopes, desires and personal histories. Alexander Hraefn Morris, telling his symbolic story in a series of works at the Gallery at Library Square called Traveler, hopes that his works’ meaning will be transporting for the viewer, allowing for personal voyages of experience, even as the show expresses a lifetime of symbolic meaning to the artist, conveyed in color, gesture and expressive use of abstract form. Morris tells the story of universal symbiotic relationships. The figure of the raven is central in Morris’ narrative (“Black Birds on a Wire #2” is pictured). Ecologists call ravens “wolf-birds”; wild wolves will observe ravens circling in the sky and will go to that position. Ravens will then follow wolf packs to eat what they kill, creating a symbiosis. “By using these languages, I tell a story about such a journey as seen through the eyes of an empathetic guardian as it watches over me, or guides me from within, through this desert life,” Morris says. With such a heightened consciousness, Morris has lived a life of great awareness that he now expresses through his art. (Ehren Clark) Alexander Hraefn Morris: Traveler @ Gallery at Library Square, 210 E. 400 South, 801-524-8200, through Oct. 24, free. SLCPL.org

“What is the price of love?” That was the question that inspired Garrett Sherwood and Ryan Hayes, a couple of friends from Idaho, to create Deep Love. According to Sherwood, when he and Hayes first got together to create something musically, they immediately gravitated toward the idea of a rock opera exploring the many facets of love, good and bad. For the duo, setting the narrative in a way that directly involved the dead—in this case, having ghosts among the characters—was simply a unique way for them to pose their eternal question. They tapped American Idol finalist Jon Peter Lewis both to help produce and to star in the production. Hayes and Lewis then launched a folk duo called Midas Whale, which was featured on the hit television series The Voice—where the pair met another contestant, Amy Whitcomb, who also now stars in the annual star-studded fall production. The basic narrative follows the trials of Constance (Melanie Stone), a young maiden jealously guarded by the undying affection of her deceased lover, Old Bones (Lewis). When she begins to fall for a decidedly living firebrand named Friedrich (Sherwood), the new lovers are haunted by Bones from beyond the grave—not to mention Friedrich’s woefully spurned ex-lover Florence (Whitcomb). The success of Deep Love is surely due to its unique blend of music styles—from Western and folk to haunting blues. But it’s also due to an engaging story and a captivating, immersive production, including encouraging audiences to embrace the macabre mood by attending in funeral attire. (Jacob Stringer) Deep Love: A Ghostly Folk Opera @ Rose Wagner Center, 138 W. 300 South, 801355-2787, Oct. 17, 8 p.m., $20. ArtTix.org, DeepLoveOpera.com

The Utah Grizzlies open their 2014-15 season on Friday night when they host the Idaho Steelheads. But it’s not just the start of a new hockey season; it’s a 20th anniversary. Utah has been home to minor-league hockey since 1969, when the Salt Lake Golden Eagles set up shop in the former Salt Palace. That franchise lasted until 1994, when owner Larry Miller sold the team, and they became the Detroit Vipers. Salt Lake City had to get by without hockey in the winter of 1994-95. In the meantime, Denver had been awarded the Grizzlies as an expansion team in the International Hockey League. The team drew 12,000 fans a game, so the next year the National Hockey League’s Quebec Nordiques moved to Denver to become the Colorado Avalanche, and the Grizzlies headed west to become the Utah Grizzlies for the 199596 season, and have been in business here ever since. During that time, the team has sent more than 200 players to the NHL, and has been affiliated with the NHL’s Islanders, Kings, Stars, Canadians, Lightning, Coyotes, Flames and, now, the Anaheim Ducks while playing in the IHL, American Hockey League and now the ECHL (originally named the East Coast Hockey League but now just “ECHL” since it has teams in Alaska and California). The 21-team league plays a 72-game regular season, meaning the Grizzlies will host 36 home games through April 4. Whether you wear a Golden Eagles or Grizzlies jersey, show up and celebrate decades of hockey in Utah. (Geoff Griffin) Utah Grizzlies vs. Idaho Steelheads @ Maverik Center, 3200 S. Decker Lake Drive, West Valley City, 801-988-8800, Oct. 17, 7:05 p.m., $12-$35. MaverikCenter.com

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FRIDAY 10.17

William Lamson: Hydrologies “Water is life,” the truism goes, and that fact may become more painfully obvious as we experience shortages occur due to climate change. Brooklyn-based video and performance artist William Lamson explores the relationship between the land and water in his solo exhibition Hydrologies at the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art. Dual projects make use of the act of adding or removing water from the landscape as the basis of environmental works. In Hydrologies Atacama, Lamson—working with the assistance of a Chilean crew—distributed water across a section of the Atacama Desert, the world’s oldest and driest continuous desert, in attempts to reactivate plant life there. Hydrologies Archaea took him to the Great Salt Lake, where he extracted several gallons of extremely saline water and poured it into glassware. Over the months, salt crystals developed in the containers, and the water evaporated, revealing thick salt deposits. The remains of hallophilic bacteria, now in fossil form, are of the domain Archaea, among the earliest known life forms. The two experiments seem to balance one other, but the results indicate a lack of environmental balance. Yet they also demonstrate the resilience of life on earth. Documentation includes videos, photographs and some of the jars of salt crystals. Other UMOCA openings Oct. 17 include Amy Jorgensen’ Far From the Tree and Catherine Yass’ Wall. (Brian Staker) William Lamson: Hydrologies @ Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, 20 S. West Temple. 801-328-4201, Oct. 17-Jan. 10, artist talk Oct. 17, 6 p.m., gallery stroll reception 7-9 p.m., free, suggested $5 donation. UtahMOCA.org

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Blowing Up Salt Lake City native Rebecca Campbell returns home with the nuclear-themed Boom. By Brian Staker comments@cityweekly.net

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the Painted Word, the Arts Festival, the university, the smell of rain on hot asphalt. I constantly rerun all of it like a montage as I am making work.” Campbell is preparing for several shows next year, and just finished a set of works titled “The Potato Eaters”—recalling the Van Gogh series of the same name, and based on members of her family growing up potato-farming in Rupert, Idaho—to be featured in the critical journal Diacritics at Cornell. “After completing such a large and melancholy project, I sense a bit of mischief brewing,” Cambpell says. Recalling her earlier experimentation with pornography as subject matter, she jokes, “Maybe I’ll dig out those vintage Hustlers again and see how they look 15 years later.” CW

Campbell believes that the violent images convey something about what she calls her “fractured experience of life.” “They are at once terrifying and exquisite; they are candy-coated death,” she says. “The paintings in this show in general were inspired by the phenomena that life can hold opposites, and in fact opposites often need each other for their very definition. I also just love the word ‘boom.’ It is simple and complex. It is an explosion, a flirtatious proclamation, a microphone, a hip swing, an idea, machismo incarnate.” CUAC’s director and curator, Adam Bateman, is enthusiastic about showing Campbell’s work here again. “She is one of the most successful painters/artists at a national level … to ever come out of Utah,” Bateman says. “I also think her subject matter, being inspired in large part by her connection to Utah, is highly appropriate for our audience. It needs to be seen here. I think she is highly successful in exploring ideas that, while universal, are acute in Utah—she is both exploring and representing something true to this place.” Campbell acknowledges and embraces her connection with the state. “All of my work is influenced by my relationship with Utah,” Campbell says. “The mountains, my family, the politics, the church, the lovers, being a woman in arguably the most openly patriarchal community in the U.S., the punk scene, the lake, Kennecott,

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he artistic career of Salt Lake City native Rebecca Campbell has certainly exploded in the 15 years since she left for graduate studies at UCLA, where she stayed to work and teach. Her exhibit Boom, opening at CUAC, features dramatic, provocative paintings of nuclear bomb explosions, as well as portraits that play on feminist themes, with domestic scenes that hint at discord. For Campbell, painting is primarily a physical experience. “Viscerality has always played a major role in my work in the form of brushwork, materiality and subject,” Campbell says. “Things like digging holes, leaking tears and baking bread have been fundamental sources in my work.” Even when her artistic odyssey was just beginning with early shows in Utah, her work stood out because of her confident, expressionistic brushstrokes, assertive compositions and compelling, sometimes controversial subjects. Her send-off from Salt Lake City 15 years ago was a bit understated, she recalls, but the local art scene at the time was more “underground,” she says. Her gestured paintings and works of concisely rendered realism made waves in California, however, and her career was given a boost in graduate school when she was included in an exhibition at the renowned Gagosian Gallery with notable artists Chris Burden and Ed Ruscha. Afterward, she was offered representation with L.A. Louver Gallery, and she has shown at Ameringer McEnery Yohe in New York, and was featured in the art fairs Art Basel and ARCO Madrid. “It’s interesting to know that I can be as controversial in Los Angeles for making intentionally nostalgic figurative oil paintings involv ing emotional domestic narratives … as I can in SLC directing performance art inspired by the theoretical writing of Luce Irigaray and the anonymity of Internet pornography,” she says. Why atomic bombs in her paintings over the past three years? She has written in an essay that her work interests are in extreme contrasts: “I seek the radiant, the abject, deliverance and damage in concert ... I try to understand the atomic blast through heat, light, obliteration, full spectrum doom. ... My paintings are a manifesto for rapture in spite [of] or even in debt to the abyss.”

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A&E To Infinity and Beyond The future of gaming may be making the games you play. By Bryan Young comments@cityweekly.net @swankmotron

n Sept. 23, the latest version of the Disney Infinity franchise was released, starring all of the best and brightest from Marvel Comics. There’s a world of adventure to be had playing through the structured stories of comic books and Disney whimsy, and that might be the way I prefer playing the game. But one of the game’s primary functions is called The Toy Box—and it might be one of the most exciting things I’ve seen in a long time. It’s not exciting just for me in particular, but for the future of gaming in general. Maybe not even just gaming, either; maybe it can help make people a little better. The Toy Box is an open world that lets you create and build games and scenarios using all the tools the game developers who created Disney Infinity had at their disposal. Coincidentally, those developers work at a Disney-owned company called Avalanche, located right here in Salt Lake City. Players are allowed to do just about anything they want in their construction, and to fashion the game in a variety of ways. This mode of play is comparable to some games that came before it—most notably Minecraft, which hit the streets five years ago, though that might as well be millennia in video game years. If you’re not familiar with Minecraft, imagine a giant virtual LEGO set, and you have the gist of the game. It’s hugely popular, and people

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can sink hours and hours into crafting their own worlds. But that’s about where things end in Minecraft. Yes, it’s about creativity, but the game’s entire focus is on building (and to a lesser extent, survival). People can only marvel at what you’ve created and explore it to such a degree. Infinity, however, allows you to create interactive experiences to share. Want to create a tower defense game? Done. A labyrinth full of enemies for your friends to battle? Simple. A sprawling city where you’ve hidden a variety of objects for friends to find? Capture the flag? A fighting game? A racing game? An entire dungeon-crawling role-playing game? Disney Infinity 2.0 makes it possible and even easy. The unique impact of Disney Infinity 2.0 on the future of gaming is that it’s teaching the people playing the game how to make a game. You have to program it, decide on the functionality, and actually develop something. Furthermore, Disney Infinity 2.0 invites you to upload the games you make for others to download so that they can play. I always tell people to create more than they consume, and for those who like to unwind playing video games, Infinity allows them to do that. We’re going to get better games in the future as a result of this approach—and, more than that, better people. Douglas Rushkoff, author and astute cultural observer, challenged people to “program or be programmed.” If we’re going to be competent citizens in this new digital age, we need to learn how to step back and do the programming, or we’re going to disappear as consumers in a wasteland of technology. These may be small steps, but I think games like Minecraft and Disney Infinity 2.0 are great first steps toward getting us to that point. CW Bryan Young is the editor-in-chief of BigShinyRobot.com

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Tony Feher: They arrived yesterday, dusty and weary from the journey, but in good spirits What to do with the monumental G. W. Anderson Family Great Hall in the Utah Museum of Fine Arts might have been daunting for Whitney Tassie, UMFA’S curator of contemporary art, had she not an established relationship with sculptor Tony Feher. Feher’s aesthetic of turning “unconsidered, often-discarded materials into poetic sculptures and installations” was exactly the recipe for the installation space of the great hall, Tassie says, and takes advantage of the height, volume and natural light. Feher’s site-specific work was inspired by the concept of place, and—by using DIY fluorescent pink flagging tape for the ceiling, and blue painter’s tape for the paneling—fills nearly all vertical space in the great hall. “His simple materials and inventive manipulation of the great hall will create a new, transformative experience for museum-goers,” Tassie says. “Repeat visitors will experience the space of the museum like never before.” (Ehren Clark) Tony Feher: They arrived yesterday, dusty and weary from the journey, but in good spirits @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 410 Campus Center Drive, University of Utah, 801-581-7332, ongoing, $7-$9. UMFA.Utah.edu

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Now entering its ninth year, Anime Banzai has grown from a 600-person convention to hosting more than 5,000 people, bringing Japanese culture, anime and manga to the Davis Conference Center. The three-day event features panels about general Japanese culture and anime, gaming (card and video) rooms, art and cosplay contests, and dances. A viewing room is also available for family-friendly (PG-13 or tamer) anime. Local artists will be selling and displaying their work, while anime talent like voice actors Chuck Huber and Vic Mignogna and veteran animator Jan Scott-Frazie will also meet with fans.

If you’re attending for the first time, the options can seem overwhelming. Make sure to check out Anime Banzai’s handy PDF of schedules, maps of the convention center and Davis County as a whole, and entry forms to the various contests. Anime Bonzai is an excellent starter convention for the first time pop-culture convention attendee, or a fun closing weekend for the seasoned convention-goer. (Rebecca Frost) Anime Banzai @ Davis Conference Center, 1651 N. 700 West, Layton, 801416-8888, Oct. 17-19, Friday & Saturday 10 a.m.-12:30 a.m., Sun 10 a.m.-7 p.m., $25-$50, AnimeBanzai.org

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Utopia Early Music: My Bonny Lass She Smelleth It’s possible—perhaps even likely—that the layperson’s perspective on “early music” is something stiff and formal. But as anybody who’s ever read The Canterbury Tales can tell you, there was certainly also a naughty comedic side of the baroque, medieval and Renaissance eras, as Utopia Early Music demonstrates in this weekend’s season-opening program. Talented local singers and musicians, using period-authentic instruments like recorder and harpsichord, present works by contemporary parody songwriter Peter Schickele (aka P.D.Q. Bach) placed in a unique historical context. Utopia will juxtapose these modern tunes with actual pieces from the lineage of humorous song: ribald pieces from Elizabethan England, and 17thcentury drinking songs. You might even learn about the more comical side of the original Bach. (Scott Renshaw) Utopia Early Music: My Bonny Lass She Smelleth @ Cathedral Church of St. Mark, 231 E. 100 South, Oct. 18, 8 p.m., Oct. 19, 5 p.m., pay as able (suggested donation: $15 general/$12 senior/$10 student). UtopiaEarlyMusic.org

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like most risotto, but more like a riceand-seafood jambalaya, texture-wise. That said, it was still a delicious mélange of scallops, shrimp, squid and salmon cooked up with fragrant, saffron-infused rice. I’m just not sure I’d call it risotto. There’s a small, adequate wine selection at Sole Mio, which includes Bibi Graetz Casamatta Morgante Nero D’Avola and Donnafugata white wine. However, if you want to enjoy a Super Tuscan or nice bottle of Gavi with your meal, you’d better bring your own. When I spotted spiedini on the menu, I was sold. It’s not something you see in Utah’s Italian restaurants much. The spiedini di carne ($14.95) was four rolls of veal, breaded and stuffed with pine nuts, raisins, breadcrumbs, ham and cheese, then deep-fried and served on a mountain of fresh greens. As with the arancini, I loved the flavor and texture of the spiedini, but wish there had been a smidgeon of sauce alongside for dipping. Don’t overlook the pizzas at Sole Mio, which range from an excellent Margherita ($9.95) to Giuseppe’s favorite, the Siciliana ($12.95) with sausage, peppers, mozzarella, eggplant, onions and basil. And when your server asks if you’ve saved room for dessert, answer with a resounding “Yes!” and order the incomparable housemade tiramisu. You’re welcome. CW

At any given time, it seems like there are about a dozen of Chef Franco’s family members working at Sole Mio. There’s Giuseppe, his son, waiting on tables, and Franco’s wife helping out in the dining room. Another son or brother (I forget which) is making pizzas; the son of partner Ali is a superfriendly server; “honorary cousin” Kristy serves and helps us to sort out the genealogical underpinnings of Sole Mio. Since it’s a mostly Italian affair, it always seems like either a fight or a feast could break out at any minute. It’s all part of the charm of dining in this Sicilian restaurant: It’s sort of dinner theater, if you will. The soups (zuppa) are hearty, with offerings like bean soup ( fagioli) with pancetta, celery, potatoes, carrots, tomato and pasta ($7.95); and rib-sticking zuppa alla Siciliana, a hefty meatball soup with potatoes, basil and tomatoes ($8.95). Seafood lovers will appreciate the plentiful combination of mussels, clams, shrimp and squid in the zuppa marinara ($11.95). The pastas are so generously portioned that I recommend sharing them. We especially enjoyed the ravioli spinaci ($13.95), which is a plate of 10 or so large house-made ravioli stuffed with a puree of ricotta, spinach and Parmesan, and served in a silk y, rich tomato-cream sauce. I ordered spaghetti alla carbonara ($11.95), made w ith pancetta, eggs, Parmesan and cream, and could barely put a dent in the piled-high plate of spaghetti, the leftovers of which made for a decadent midnight snack. A seafood risotto special ($15.95) one evening was a bit odd. First, it wasn’t made with high-starch, short-grain Arborio rice, which is pretty much the definition of risotto. And second, it wasn’t creamy

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f you’ve ever dined at Amici restaurant in Cottonwood Heights, with its roughly 40-person capacity, you know that it can be a challenge to get a seat on a busy night. Well, that’s certainly not the case at the sprawling Sole Mio restaurant in Sandy, which could probably contain and feed the entire University of Utah football squad, plus their friends, families and fans. Former Amici partner “Chef Franco” was looking for a bit more room in which to ply his trade, and so he opened Sole Mio in the Willow Creek Shopping Plaza location that was formerly home to the Fox Hole II. Sole Mio is not an intimate space—and yet, the service is so friendly and inviting that, like at Amici, you feel like you’ve joined an Italian family for dinner. It’s probably not politically correct, but I noticed lots of people on the Internet affectionately referring to the cuisine at Sole Mio as “goomba” food. And, I think the extended family that runs and owns the restaurant would probably be OK with that description. The food isn’t pretentious or precious, but the dishes are generous and the prices are modest. If you’re in the mood for hearty Sicilian fare, in a place where Grandma is in the kitchen and the grandkids are waiting on tables, Sole Mio is for you. You won’t go home hungry or ruin your budget at Sole Mio, where the most expensive menu item tops out at $17.95— and that’s for bistecca alla campagnola, a grilled New York steak on an arugula bed, topped with shaved Parmesan and balsamic vinegar, with veggies on the side. The arancini ($5.95) are hard to resist as a meal starter. Unlike the more standard Italian “rice balls” that are the size of tangerines, at Sole Mio the arancini is a single softball-size sphere with rice, peas, mozzarella and meaty Bolognese sauce, all rolled into a big ball and deep-fried in oil. As much as I enjoyed the arancini, I did find it a little dry, and would have liked some sauce alongside for dipping. It would be hard to improve, however, on the calamari e gamberi fritti ($9.95)—a big plate of fried squid and small shrimp, with breading so light and airy it’s nearly translucent, but oh-so tasty, served with chopped greens and marinara sauce on the side. The most popular appetizer, of course, is mozzarella in carrozza ($7.95). Hey, who doesn’t love deep-fried cheese?

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I ordered turkey, havarti, tomato and lettuce on a wheat roll—and, following Dutch tradition, I passed on all condiments except butter. Americans know that butter is great on toast, and now I know it’s wonderful on sandwiches, too. The Stockholm sandwich also looked enticing, with its smoked turkey, lingonberry sauce, cream cheese and lettuce on sourdough. The sweet lingonberry and whipped cream cheese mixed together was almost like candy. The Old Dutch Store offers a few housemade soup options frozen and ready to take home, including Norwegian cream of cauliflower with meatballs. The hot soup of the day when I visited was potato Gouda—and since Gouda alone is pretty much a religion in the Netherlands, it did not disappoint. The soup was thick like a grav y, with a creamy, powerful taste—Gouda isn’t known for hiding in the background. In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, people often go to the store daily. With food this wonderful, you might pick up the habit. And whatever all that cheese might do for the layer of fat around my heart, I know my soul was smiling. CW

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f, like me, you didn’t get the oppor tunit y to attend Munich’s raucous Oktoberfest with 6.3 million other revelers this year, or even the somewhat smaller Snowbird Resor t Ok tober fest, both of which ended recently, all is not lost. You could do what I did to soothe my autumnal cravings for brats and brews: throw your own Oktoberfest celebration. Each year when there’s a fall chill in the air, I make up a big batch of choucroute garnie, the Alsatian dish that holds many of the flavors of Oktoberfest in one pot. There are smoked meats (like ham hocks, sliced ham and pork chops) along with

sauerkraut, spuds (optional), bacon and, of course, sausages (bratwurst, weisswurst, frankfurters and such). I always serve my choucroute garnie with buttery homemade spätzle, the small egg & flour dumplings that translate from the Swabian dialect to “little sparrows.” The question then is: What do you drink with a fairly hefty dish that incorporates tangy sauerkraut f lavors, smok y meats, mild sausages and potatoes, hints of juniper and caraway, along with a side of buttered pasta? Well, my advice would be to go light. And I don’t mean Bud or Coors Light. I would opt for a light style of beer such as a good lager or hefeweizen, or a relatively lower alcohol wine such as Riesling or Pinot Gris. I took the opportunity of my recent choucroute garnie bash to try out various Oktoberfeststyle sips. In Strasbourg—the spiritual home of choucroute garnie—grated apple is sometime added at or near the end of cooking. The apples add a crisp, tangy sweetness to the overall dish that simply begs for a good glass of Riesling alongside. The apples, plus the fact that the liquid cook the choucroute garnie in is Riesling, makes the wine a slam-dunk as a drinking partner. Of course, Riesling runs the gamut from über-dry to teeth-tingling sweet.

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DRINK To balance the saltiness of the smoked meats and the tangy aspects of the sauerkraut, I recommend a Riesling with a bit of residual sugar, like Ste. Chapelle Chateau Series Riesling ($5.99) from Idaho, which has pear and stone fruit f lavors that serve as a slightly sweet counterbalance to the choucroute garnie. For something in a drier st yle, check out the Alsatian Willm R iesling Reser ve ($1 4.99) or Willm Pinot Gris Reserve ($15.99) for two tantalizing sips of Alsace alongside the iconic A lsatian meal. Even better, crack open a bottle of KuentzBas A lsace Blanc ($14.94), an age-worthy A lsatian white wine composed of Sylvaner, Auserrois, Muscat and Chasselas juice. It’s bone-dry, but with citrus f lavors and a slight smokiness that is a good match for smoked sausages and ham. On the beer front, I’m always a fan of the economically priced Lev Lion Pilsner ($2.10/500ml) from the Czech Republic, and equally fond of dependable Spaten Premium Lager ($1.89/355ml), a

lager that has satisfied Münchners for more than six centuries. Speaking of old beer, I also really like to sip Weihenstephaner Or ig ina l P remium ($3.99/503m l), the Munich helles-st yle lager, made by the world’s oldest brewery. It tastes lean and light, with a slightly grassy/ herbal quality. For wheat beer, I’d turn to Czech Primátor Hefe-Weizen ($2/500ml) or Fra n zisk a ner Weissbier ($2.59/500ml) from Munich. Both of these excellent wheat brews have a gorgeous mouthfeel and citrus notes that work beautifully with choucroute garnie. I’d also add a couple of seasonal Oktoberfest beers to the roster: Festbier from Gordon Biersch ($1.87/355ml) and Ay inger Ok tober festMärzen ($3.11/500ml). Prost! CW

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If you’re headed up to the Park City area for skiing, this is a great breakfast pit stop. Owners Nancy and Dante Eggan ensure that a laid-back, no-worries philosophy permeates the cozy cafe. But the food is high quality all the way: Everything is made with fresh ingredients, and all sauces, soups, stews and such are cooked from scratch. Chef/owner Dante dishes out custom-made omelets and his signature Dante’s Inferno for breakfast, along with awesome huevos rancheros, biscuits & gravy, and Black Angus top sirloin steak & eggs. For lunch, the tuna melt and French dip sandwich are always good choices. 185 Aspen Drive, Summit Park, 435-658-5007, NoWorriesCafeAndGrill.com

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Located in a strip mall just a few doors down from the Cottonwood Wine Store, Cancun Cafe features housemade Mexican fare in a friendly, festive setting. Regular customers rave about the chile rellenos and the housemade chips & salsa. But also try the chile verde burrito, taco salads, Mexican beef steak, enchiladas, tacos and carnitas in very generous portions. Don’t forget to order some housemade flan for dessert as you wrap up your meal. Multiple locations, MyCancunCafe.com

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Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Brad Pitt, Michael Peña and Jon Bernthal in Fury breakdowns—and Pitt pitches his performance in a way that evokes his cocky commander character from Inglourious Basterds while also deepening it. Yet neither that character nor any of the others ultimately feel like they matter all that much to where Fury is going as it builds to the tank team’s climactic suicide mission. It’s two hours of high tension lacking enough resonance to be truly memorable an hour after you’ve left the theater. For plenty of viewers, that two hours of high tension is bound to be enough to make Fury feel genuinely potent. From the life-and-limb threats of the battlefield engagements to an extended scene of some of Collier’s men psychologically terrorizing a pair of German women, Ayer succeeds at the fundamental business of reminding us that war is, indeed, hell. It’s only a problem if you’ve grown weary of seeing Ayer say more or less the same thing about the lives of all men trying to keep us safe. That’s his signature at the bottom of his work: Everything is hell. CW

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Fury, there’s a vibe of barely concealed contempt between most of the men, especially when the team’s dead member is replaced by combat virgin Pvt. Norman Ellison (Logan Lerman). It’s not merely hazing; it’s a sense of complete disdain for the guys you need to protect your back. Yet that exact dynamic is also why Fury begins to drift inexorably into something that’s obviously “a David Ayer movie”—and that’s not a great thing if you’re not on his wavelength. As the screenwriter of Training Day and the writer/director of movies like End of Watch and this year’s Sabotage, Ayer has focused his attention on men—and it’s almost always men—who have to trust one another with their lives, even at times when someone is morally compromised. It’s thematic material that’s great at creating viscerally intense moments, but while Ayer has a knack for making his gritty violence feel real—and Fury offers more trauma inflicted on human bodies than Saving Private Ryan’s Omaha Beach opening—he’s not nearly as successful at finding reality in his characters. Instead, he turns to something rudimentary in the central relationship between Collier and Ellison, in which Collier becomes exactly the “Wardaddy” mentor to the terrified rookie suggested by his nickname. There’s a certain daring to the complexity Ayer tries to give Collier—playing both the Berenger and Dafoe roles from Platoon, his own traumatic experiences visible in the scars on his back and his hidden emotional

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everal years ago, my colleague Mike D’Angelo attempted a rather audacious experiment. While covering the 2007 Cannes Film Festival, he attended all the films in the festival’s competition slate completely blind as to what he was going to see: not the title, not the premise, not the stars, not the director, nothing. It was in part an experiment in the relative effect of surprise vs. expectation, but I personally found it intriguing to speculate how long it might take—considering Cannes’ usual lineup of established, world-class filmmakers—to figure out the director if the credits did not come at the beginning of a film. How singularly identifiable, I wondered, was any given auteur’s fingerprint? I flash back to this unique critical enterprise thanks to Fury, a period war epic by a director known for cinematic subject matter—modern-day crime-f ighters— pretty distinct from period war epics. I wish I’d had the opportunity to watch Fury without knowing that it was written and directed by David Ayer, because I like to think eventually I’d have been able to identify his handiwork, much to my dismay. At the outset, Fury feels like a pretty bold approach to a brothers-in-arms soldier story. The in medias res opening finds the five-man crew of the U.S. Sherman tank nicknamed “Fury” in a hell of a mess: broken down and alone in the middle of a German battlefield in April 1945, one member of the team already dead and the odds of survival looking pretty bleak. And instead of rallying together, these guys seem barely able to tolerate one another. The tank’s commander, Sgt. “Wardaddy” Collier (Brad Pitt) doesn’t just verbally berate his men, including engineer “Coon-Ass” Travis (Jon Bernthal); he literally kicks the crap out of them. Throughout much of the first half of

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CINEMA CLIPS NEW THIS WEEK Information is correct at press time. Film release schedules are subject to change. The Best of Me HH There’s no man quite like a Nicholas Sparks man—as in, there is no man like a Nicholas Sparks man, who can work on an oil rig while pleasure-reading Stephen Hawking, or spend a day in shirtless manual labor followed by making a post-deflowering breakfast for his girlfriend. The latest Sparks adaptation casts James Marsden and Michelle Monaghan as Dawson and Amanda, 39-year-old once-lovers reunited by the death of a mutual friend 21 years after their romance as teenagers (played in flashbacks by Luke Bracey and Liana Liberato) came to an unfortunate end. There’s clearly a primal effectiveness to Sparks’ formula, and director Michael Hoffman finds some solid intimate moments to make the most of his cast (including a very good Gerald McRaney as Dawson’s surrogate father figure). But eventually we’re going to hit Sparks’ trademark melodramatic third-act plot points, involving the kind of stuff that just leaves one’s mouth agape that he’s not playing it for laughs. Of course, perhaps it’s foolish to expect anything remotely real from this guy, as his Emotionally Wounded Beefcake Dream Boys feed his audience a romantic life they’ll never actually find. Opens Oct. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG-13)—Scott Renshaw The Book of Life HHH.5 Visually and aurally delightful, The Book of Life has a storyline that’s fairly standard stuff—but that’s by design, not a failure of imagination. Director Jorge Gutierrez (who also co-wrote) seems intent on making the definitive movie that will be on TV every year come Day of the Dead, the three-day Mexican and pan Hispanic festival of remembrance and celebration. And while it’s impossible to say what the future of TV programming will bring, the movie itself is certainly good enough—and goodnatured enough—to be so immortalized. The storytelling is elegantly simple and easy to follow even for young kids, though some of the jokes are a little off-color for really young ones. For the grownups, there’s the wildly elaborate animation and inspired choice of songs, both covers and originals (the latter by such worthies as Gustavo Santaolalla and Paul Williams), and the sublime sincerity and engagement of the voice acting (Diego Luna, Zoe Saldana and the endlessly surprising Channing Tatum in the leads). Even with the bounty of excellent animated films in recent years, The Book of Life ranks among the elite, a sparkling bit of entertainment. Opens Oct. 17 at theaters valleywide. (PG)—Danny Bowes Fury HH.5 See review p. 31. Opens Oct. 17 at theaters valleywide. (R) Last Days in Vietnam HHH A documentary with the suspense and narrative drive more often associated with a procedural thriller, Last Days in Vietnam is about exactly that: the events leading up to the 1975 end of the United States presence in Saigon, two years after the “official” end of the war. The particulars of the story bring to mind Ben Affleck’s Argo, including the similar goal of extracting personnel in the face of a different looming hostile regime, and a 1970s setting. Rory Kennedy’s film, though, manages all of the dramatic tension and emotional pull without some of Argo’s more risible contrivances. Indeed, Kennedy works formally within a very conventional, even conservative documentary format; archival footage and talking head interviews abound. The key here is that she uses these elements very well, in addition to some visually plain but functionally helpful threedimensional maps of both the city of Saigon and the U.S.

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embassy. Last Days in Vietnam will probably play better the more one knows about the war already, but it is, as one talking head puts it, an eerily accurate microcosm for the conflict as a whole. Opens Oct. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (NR)—DB Men, Women & Children H.5 As explorer probe Voyager passes into interstellar space, Adam Sandler is masturbating to Internet porn. There’s a point to this juxtaposition, but only director Jason Reitman knows what it is. Is it that the hyper-advanced aliens who may one day find Voyager will be disappointed that all we ended up doing with our technology is fart around on Facebook? Reitman is, frankly, way too young to have produced a work of such fuddy-duddy handwringing over These Kids (And Adults) Today and how we play with our e-toys. The wonderful ensemble cast—Jennifer Garner, Rosemarie DeWitt, Judy Greer, J.K. Simmons; even Sandler is fine here— struggles to bring genuine human emotion to overwrought scenarios exploring banal realities of human nature that aren’t actually new to the era of texting and videogames (parents have trouble letting their children grow up; sometimes it’s easier to talk to strangers than friends) while ignoring all the good that the Internet has brought. Not one character here has an ultimately positive experience online or with a screen, which is a dismally unfair representation of our newly interconnected culture. Opens Oct. 17 at theaters valleywide. (R)—MaryAnn Johanson Pride HHHH Upbeat, positive, life-affirming, feel-good: This is the little-known true story of a small London gay and lesbian organization that raised money to help one tiny Welsh town that was badly impacted by the 1984-85 U.K. coal miners’ strike. As activist Mark (the wonderful Ben Schnetzer) and his

buddies bravely descend on a very conservative place and find a surprising mix of everything from acceptance to wariness to hostility, this comedy of culture clash treats bigotry as the risible position that it is and explores—with smart, wise humor, and sometimes bittersweet drama—the odd misconceptions that some people still hold even today about what it means to be gay. The fantastic cast—including Imelda Staunton, Bill Nighy, Paddy Considine and George MacKay, another up-and-comer to watch—leads us through all sorts of happy-tears emotion about solidarity to be found among groups of people with seemingly little in common, and the joy of finding new friends in the most unexpected of places. This is one of those rare movies that gets absolutely everything right. Opens Oct. 17 at Broadway Centre Cinemas. (R)—MAJ

SPECIAL SCREENINGS Boyhood At Park City Film Series, Oct. 17-18 @ 8 p.m. & Oct. 19 @ 6 p.m. (R) Man With the Screaming Brain At Brewvies, Oct. 20, 10 p.m. (R) Particle Fever At Main Library, Oct. 21, 7 p.m. (NR)

CURRENT RELEASES Dracula Untold HHH This solid action fantasy finds new angles on the oft-told tale of the Transylvanian bloodsucker, both in the character himself and in the way that vampire mythology plays out.

It’s more Game of Thrones than Nosferatu, more tragedy than horror. When Prince Vlad the Retired Impaler (Luke Evans) must protect Transylvania from the conquestbent Turk sultan (Dominic Cooper), he enters into a pact with an ancient vampire (Charles Dance) that grants him supernatural powers. This is smarter and more stylish than it could have been, and more elemental and visceral than I expected, thanks to Evans’ potent presence. His Vlad is more in the new vein of re-imagined comic book heroes than he is like any Dracula we’ve seen before: flawed and complicated, and at least as vulnerable, physically and emotionally, as he is powerful. (PG-13)—MAJ

Gone Girl HHH.5 Right from the opening credits, director David Fincher turns his adaptation of Gillian Flynn’s best-selling novel into the cinematic equivalent of a compulsive page-turner. Ben Affleck stars as Nick Dunne, who returns home from work to find his wife, Amy (Rosamund Pike), missing, with evidence of a struggle in the house. But is Nick a worried husband, or a calculating murderer? The pirouettes and reversals in Flynn’s narrative keep our sense of these characters unsteady, while Fincher and company nail the media and public insta-reactions that boil around a high-profile true-crime case. Gone Girl may cast an even more cynical eye on the disintegration of a marriage, and it’s somewhat less effective on that topic. Yet Fincher ultimately has a way of making dark material irresistible. Once you start flipping through these pages, it’s awfully hard to stop. (R)—SR

The Judge HH.5 In many ways, it’s a steaming, overstuffed mess—and then there’s that thing where watching two great actors wrestle with a complex relationship makes parts of it hard to resist. Hot-shot Chicago defense attorney Hank Palmer (Robert Downey Jr.) returns to his Indiana hometown for his mother’s funeral, only to find that his estranged father, Joseph (Robert Duvall), a respected local judge, is facing a murder charge. The fact that it works at all is almost entirely thanks to Downey and Duvall, who are terrific when they get a chance to work their surprisingly edgy dynamic. But the story wanders through too many subplots over nearly two and a half hours, and builds to a predictably overwrought courtroom finale. In your brain, you know how ridiculous it is. And in your gut, it might still work a little bit anyway. (R)—SR

Kill the Messenger HHH This fact-based story about the power of shoe-leather journalism gets a boost from Jeremy Renner’s performance as Gary Webb, a reporter who stumbled upon evidence in 1996 of Reagan-era CIA involvement with drug operations that helped finance Nicaragua’s Contra rebels—and suffered for digging around where he shouldn’t dig. Some of the kick in this story comes from the idea that other newspapers—embarrassed at being scooped—did the government’s job of discrediting Webb. But Renner is the anchor here, playing Webb as a thrill junkie driven as much by a need for excitement as a thirst for justice. Eventually, things do get bogged down in domestic drama, and the pacing flags as director Michael Cuesta wades through the slow bleeding away of Webb’s dignity. It’s still a potent thing watching the hammer drive another nail into journalism’s coffin. (R)—SR

Meet the Mormons HH If you know a movie only exists to sell you something, it’s hard not to approach it with arms-folded skepticism. Blair Treu’s documentary is selling the idea that “hey, we Mormons aren’t just a bunch of white people in Utah,”

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and selling that idea hard. An amusing opening segment with narrator/host Jenna Kim Jones asking New Yorkers what they know about Mormons leads into six profiles of Mormons spanning demographic and geographic boundaries. And it’s a tremendously polished production, both in the sense of its craftsmanship, and in the sense that there’s nothing remotely rough-edged or unpleasant about anyone or anything on display. These are just wonderful, everyday folks letting you know how wonderful everyday Mormonism can be. Even when their individual stories are compelling or inspiring, you know you’re watching a feature-length piece of PR spin. (PG)—SR

Tracks HHH Few movies really know how to capture solitude, but this one both respects and captures its subject’s decision to get swallowed up by her stunning surroundings. Based on Robyn Davidson’s autobiography, the film tells the story of a woman (the terrific Mia Wasikowska) who decides to trek nearly 2,000 miles from Northern Australia to the Indian Ocean. Director John Curran lets the landscapes dictate the pace here, gradually allowing the audience to discover the facets and motivations of his slowburning central character. There are occasional distractions along the way, including a subplot involving a National Geographic photographer (a less-goony-than-usual Adam Driver), and perhaps a bit more voice-over narration than is necessary. Once the movie finds its groove, however, and everything else fades away into the distance, Wasikowska, her dog and some camels achieve a fascinating sustained state of Zen. (PG-13)—AW

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When Beth (Aubrey Plaza) suddenly dies and then comes back to life, her boyfriend (Dane DeHaan) blissfully overlooks that she’s turning into a violent, flesh-hungry zombie who can only be calmed by … smooth jazz? There’s the relationship killer. (A24)

Play Hooky Five high school friends skip class to party (so far, so good) in an abandoned mental institution (uh oh) notorious for ghost sightings and Satanic rituals (aw, hell no). Did no one read the abandoned mental institution Yelp reviews first? Kids. (MVD)

Foo Fighters hit the Sonic Highways, Transporter does TV, and American Dad! relocates.

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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways Friday, Oct. 17 (HBO)

Series Debut: Personally, I would’ve preferred Crank: The Series (and I have a spec script, potential investors), but a serialized take on Jason Statham’s Transporter franchise makes more sense. The lead casting of Chris Vance doesn’t; his Frank Martin lacks Statham’s menacing charisma and hairline (no baldies on TV unless you’re Larry David), but at least he’s British and, really, all a Transporter requires is explode-y action, exotic locales

American Dad! Monday, Oct. 20 (TBS) Season Premiere: The three American Dad! episodes that aired on Fox in September were leftovers from Season 10; the 15-episode 11th season will run on TBS and Adult Swim (this information provided for readers who actually care about “seasons,” “networks,” “episodes” and other such TV minutia). Despite TBS’ promos, it’s not any “edgier” than before, but American Dad! is still smarter and more consistently funny than the series from whence it spun-off, Family Guy. Even funnier: Fox canceled American Dad! to make room for Mulaney, which had one of the lowest-rated debuts in television history a couple of weeks ago. Well, not so much funny as an I Told You So moment (which, also for you newbies, I take advantage of as often as possible).

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Season Premiere: Lisa Kudrow is back for a fourth season as online therapist Fiona Wallice, with a new Web Therapy patient list that includes Gw yneth Paltrow, Jon Hamm, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Matthew Perry, Allison Janney, Lauren Graham, Craig Ferguson, Calista Flockhart, Dax Shepard and Nina Garcia. But, get this: In November, Kudrow returns to HBO in the comeback of The Comeback—she’ll be headlining comedies on two premiumcable networks simultaneously. Sure to be a touchy subject in that session with ex-Friend Matthew “Mr. Cancellation” Perry. CW

Jay (Jason Segal) and Annie (Cameron Diaz) make a sex tape, which is accidentally made public via the Cloud. We made fun of the “Cloud” setup when Sex Tape premiered, but who’s laughing now, Jennifer Lawrence? Kate Upton? Nick Hogan? (Sony)

Snowpiercer In the post-apocalyptic future, a super-train that never stops carries the reminder of mankind around the world and, surprise, the rich are still dicks. Until one man (Chris Evans) leads a revolt for control of the engine—or at least the bar car. (Radius)

More New DVD/VOD Releases (Oct. 21) Autumn Blood, Bloodworx, CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, Earth to Echo, The Fluffy Movie, Homecoming, The Housewife Slasher, Mad Men: The Final Season Pt. 1, Misfire, RoboRex, The Scribbler, See No Evil 2, Super Babes, Swamphead, Wrong Turn 6: Last Resort Listen to Bill on Mondays at 8 a.m. on X96 Radio From Hell; weekly on the TV Tan podcast via iTunes and Stitcher.

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and husband Dean McDermott’s 43rd reality show, to exist, but Season 2? Now that the producers have made McDermott slightly interesting by painting him as a cheating scumbag (with some woman named “Emily Goodhand” … yeah, right) who performed some kink y sex acts on poor Tori (or, more likely, had her perform them on him—strap that image on), there’s still no argument to be made for it. Wait—Tori might be pregnant with Child No. 5? Never mind; all priorities are in their proper places.

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Foo Fighters: Sonic Highways (HBO)

On the one night of the year when all crime is legal, a man (Frank Grillo) bent on revenge for his son’s murder ends up saving innocents, instead—which constitutes Anarchy against The Purge, because The Purge itself is Anarchy … right? (Universal)

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and dangerous packages and/or distressed damsels to transport. The Series delivers on those fronts, and doesn’t dumb it down, either, likely thanks to showrunner Frank Spotnitz (The X-Files; underrated 2012 actioner Hunted). Wonder if he or Dave Grohl would be interested in my Crank screenplay …

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Series Debut: If you’re new to The Only TV Column That Matters™, you should know that I like my music played and produced by humans—loudly, with electric guitars and minimal artificial sweeteners. In what’s left of the pop mainstream, Foo Fighters are the last band standing who fit that bill, and Lemmy bless frontman-turned-director Dave Grohl for flying the rock & roll flag every opportunity he gets. Sonic Highways is an extension of Grohl’s Sound City doc, following the Foos to eight iconic studios in eight cities as they record and soak up local musical history at each stop (Grohl even sits down with President Barack Obama in the Washington, D.C., episode because, well, he can). Grab any kid who thinks an iPad is a recording studio and Auto-Tune is an indispensable engineering tool and make them watch Sonic Highways.

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n the music video for “Happy Alone,” Saintseneca lead vocalist, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Zac Little engages in the activities of a normal-ish day: waking up, eating cereal, driving around to do errands, playing a game at an arcade, taking a swim in a public pool. But he does it all with his head contained in a large, soft, translucent orb, as if to say that while his body might be moving through the world, his mind is in a sphere all its own. Little finds himself in his own head a lot, especially when creating music. Growing up on remote farms in Appalachia and spending a lot of time alone “instilled a sense of introspection for me,” he says. “I think that that is something that continues to a play a large role in how I approach making music and my sensibilities.” And even though Little was frequently surrounded by a group of musicians during the making of Dark Arc— Saintseneca’s second full-length, released in April—he often drew upon his inner life while coming up with lyrics and components of the music. Dark Arc is the product of a lot of recent changes for the Columbus, Ohio-based band. After Saintseneca released their debut album, Last, in 2011, the lineup dissolved, and Little was the sole original member when he began bringing musicians together to create the new album. But he didn’t build a new band right away; during the making of Dark Arc, the group was more of a “loose assemblage” of about 13 various friends and past collaborators, he says. And in the studio, the huge variety of styles among the many musicians made for a dynamic recording experience, which they approached intuitively. “It was just about being open to experimentation and incorporating a lot of little textures and trying to make an interesting and wellconsidered recording,” Little says. When it came time for Saintseneca to begin playing the new material live, the core lineup that shook out was Little, Maryn Jones, Steve Ciolek and Jon Meador, who “all played a really important role in defining how the record came to be,” Little says. Unsurprisingly, with the band undergoing so many shifts in personnel, a dramatic shift in sound occurred as well. In its previous incarnation, Saintseneca was purely acoustic, which allowed the band to play in unconventional locales including a yurt and even a highway overpass. But Dark Arc features Saintseneca toying with electric sounds for the first time. Little wrote several of the songs on the electric bass, an instrument that had never had a presence in the band, but “since the lineup had kind of shifted and I didn’t necessarily have this format to adhere to … it was a natural process to pick that instrument up,” he says. Incorporating the electric bass into what had been an all-acoustic band took some sonic maneuvering. “It was this weird moment where I kind of had to reconcile this new sound, this new idea of incorporating an electric instrument,” Little says. But with the addition of electric guitar and synthesizer, the electric presence in Saintseneca slowly grew to be an important component in the band’s present identity. Along with the stirring vocal harmonies between Little and Jones, the crux where electric meets acoustic gives Saintseneca’s music a certain magic. On one hand, an

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The juxtaposition of black clothes and flowers matches Saintseneca’s dark but beautiful music. eyebrow-raising variety of acoustic instruments (including dulcimer, saw, bouzouki, mandolin, banjo and many more) invoke the textured folk-music roots of the part of the country the band calls home. But on the other, moody electric guitar and echoing synth atmospheres reflect ’80s pop. Saintseneca’s music is a lot like the woods in fall: beautiful when the sun’s out, but chilly and a little gloomy when the light fades. The eerie music’s creation was often mysterious, too. Little was inspired to write album highlight “Uppercutter” partially because of a “shocking” newspaper article. He was so moved by the story that it “haunted my thinking and served as a big part of making the whole record,” he says, and even caused him to have recurring dreams about it. Little’s dreams influenced the arrangement of the song as well. While the bass riff of “Uppercutter” came easily to him, for a long time he “couldn’t figure out what to do with it,” he says. But after dreaming about a new vocal melody and recording it, he found it fit with the lone bass part. He dreamed about the tune’s twinkling piano as well after being stuck on it for a time. The creative spark can come from multiple sources; some give credit to an outside spiritual force, but others, like Little, can find inspiration in their inner selves, if they’re quiet enough to listen. Songwriting, Little says, isn’t something that he has “total authority over.” Instead of setting out to write about something specific, he says, “oftentimes, I’ll begin to understand what the song is as I am in the process of finding the song.” CW

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hen vocalist/keyboardist Sarah Versprille says, “We really started from scratch with Pure Bathing Culture,” she’s not kidding. Before she and guitarist Daniel Hindman formed their electro-pop duo, they were living in Brooklyn, N.Y., backing singer-songwriter Andy Cabic in his band Vetiver. But once they began collaborating on snippets of songs together, “we started realizing we were on to something and we were really excited about it,” she says. It took a 2011 cross-country move to Portland, Ore., for Pure Bathing Culture to fully take shape, though. Leaving behind New York’s skyscrapers and congested streets for Oregon’s trees and rugged coast allowed Versprille and Hindman’s creativity to expand. “Where we live in Portland, we can play in our house and we just have a lot of space to do our work,” Versprille says. “And in New York, I don’t think we would’ve been able to find that for ourselves.” The most recent product of that creativity is their dreamier than dreamy debut full-length, 2013’s Moon Tides. Songs such as “Dream the Dare” showcased Pure Bathing Culture’s newly formed sound, a shimmering expanse of ’80s-influenced synths, drum-machine beats and delicate electric guitar, with Versprille’s ethereal voice floating serenely above it all. Now, more than a year out from Moon Tides’ release, Versprille and Hindman are starting over again, in a sense, as they write the material for their next record. The songs that became their 2012 self-titled EP and Moon Tides were “really the first songs that Dan and I had ever written together, so I feel like there’s a lot of room for us to grow,” Versprille says. When Pure Bathing Culture first came together, “we didn’t even really know what was going to happen or how it was even going to sound,” she says. “So just the approach that we took was just so basic and had to do with just what we were capable of at the time.” But now that they have numerous live performances and a full-length album under their belt, Versprille continues, “we have been discovering things about what we want to be and how we want the music to sound.” They’re only “half way” through the writing process, Versprille says—the album will be released sometime in 2015—but they’re incorporating the new songs they do have put together into their live set in order to “inform the writing process moving forward after we finish up the tour,” she says. “I’m excited to finish more songs and see what happens.” CW

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Dean Risko Rappers hold a special place in their hearts for homecomings. The only thing more satisfying than nonstop neighborhood shoutouts on EPs and mixtapes is actually stepping on a home-turf stage, as former Salt Lake rapper and singer Dean Risko will be doing tonight alongside fellow Los Angeles transplant Emerson Kennedy. If you have yet to see Risko live, the first thing you’ll notice is that this rapper has moves—meaning he can dance, especially for a white dude with a beard that looks like it was a handme-down from Dodgers relief pitcher Brian Wilson. Besides his shuffles, Risko also has a unique brand of melody-infused hip-hop that’s poppy and tough at the same time and feels something like a mixture of Mike Posner and Kid Cudi. Yo Boy Pell and DJ Juggy will kick things off. (Colin Wolf) The Hotel/Club Elevate, 155 W. 200 South, 9:30 p.m., $5, TheHotelElevate.com

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Dum Dum Girls Originally the solo project of frontwoman Dee Dee and now a five-piece, New York band Dum Dum Girls started out with a guitar-heavy garage-pop sound. For their latest, Too True, released in January, Dum Dum Girls kept the guitar but jumped into the cool, dark pool of atmospheric ’80s-esque pop à la Siouxsie & the Banshees and The Cure. Too True marks more than just changes in Dum Dum Girls’ sound itself, though. Dee Dee chronicled the death of her mother in 2011’s Only in Dreams, but after the release of EP End of Daze the following year, she was able “to start with a fresh slate,” she said in an interview with Under the Radar magazine. As a result of that new creative freedom, Too True is full of songs such as “Lost Boys and Girls Club” and “Rimbaud Eyes” that are as dreamy as they are emotionally compelling. Ex Cops will start things off. The Depot, 400 W. South Temple, 9 p.m., $16, DepotSLC.com Shred Fest It seems like only yesterday that The Shred Shed opened in a graffiti-splashed space near the Gallivan Center and

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became virtually the one spot in downtown proper where under-21 music lovers could catch a show. But it’s true: The Shred Shed turned 2 this year, and is celebrating by throwing Shred Fest, a livemusic extravaganza where several national and local acts will take to the venue’s stage over two nights. Night 1 will be hip-hop themed, with a lineup that includes Ohio emcee Illogic, Minnesota rapper and beatboxer (his skills are nuts, you gotta witness it to believe it) Carnage the Executioner and Minnesota emcee PCP, as well as local mainstays House of Lewis and Pat Maine. Night 2, Saturday, will feature an all-local lineup of punk band Problem Daughter, rock/ hardcore trio Beach Cops and indie-rock/folk band Tan (previously known as Ars Nova). The Shred Shed, 60 E. Exchange Place (360 South), 8 p.m., $8 in advance, $10 day of show; Oct. 18, 8 p.m., $5, free if attend Friday, ShredShedSLC.com

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Delta Spirit If you’re a fan of The Walking Dead, you’ve probably heard Delta Spirit’s bluesy, gritty “Running,” which was featured on the show’s 2013 soundtrack (probably because of the zombie-y line “When I kissed her, she was dead”). But the Austin, Texas-based five-piece have been exploring shimmering, electro-tinged rock territory lately, as heard

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Foxygen The Los Angeles indie-pop/psychedelia duo’s bio says this about their new album, … And Star Power, released earlier this month: “Foxygen have joined Star Power. It is a punk band, and you can be in it, too. Star Power is the radio station that you can hear only if you believe.” If that weird description didn’t make it obvious, Foxygen disregarded any rules that said the track list of their third album had to be a normal length, and instead opted to make a 82-minute-long rambler that’s divided into four acts and includes multiple guest artists (for example: The Flaming Lips and Of Montreal). The album won’t be everyone’s cup of tea, but ’70s-rock-oriented single “How Can You Really”—which features loose guitar, jangly tambourine and frontman Sam France’s androgynous vocals—will get stuck in your head. Dub Thompson opens. The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9 p.m., $15, TheUrbanLoungeSLC. com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com

Coming Soon Musee Mechanique (Oct. 23, Kilby Court), Asgeir (Oct. 24, The State Room), Flashbulb Fires (Oct. 24, The Shred Shed), The Head & the Heart (Oct. 25, Park City Live), Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. (Oct. 27, The Urban Lounge), Kimbra (Oct. 27, In the Venue), Flatbush Zombies (Oct. 28, The Complex), The Afghan Whigs (Oct. 28, The Urban Lounge), Skalloween (Oct. 29, The Shred Shed)

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British musician and producer Simon Green, known by his stage name of Bonobo, might be labeled as an acid-jazz artist, but his music is much closer to something you’d hear at Urban Outfitters. Bonobo’s intricate percussion and bass lines are the foundation of his sound, which he builds upon with discreet keyboard and saxophone as well as a string section. Bonobo’s smooth and bouncy style was showcased most recently on his liverecorded 2013 album, The North Borders. DJ Jesse Walker will open the show. (Nathan Turner) Saturday, Oct. 18 @ The Urban Lounge, 241 S. 500 East, 9:30 p.m., $18 in advance, $20 day of show, TheUrbanLounge.com; limited no-fee tickets available at CityWeeklyStore.com dan medhurst

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Thursday 10.16 Salt Lake City Icy Blu, Playboy the Beast (5 Monkeys) I. Conscious, Richy Rych, Yard Squad (Bar Deluxe) The Pretty Reckless, Adelitas Way, Crash Midnight (The Complex) Allen Michael Quartet (The Garage) Robot Dream (Gracie’s) Morgan Snow (The Hog Wallow Pub) DJ Erockalypze (Inferno Cantina) SonReal, Better Taste Bureau, House of Lewis (Kilby Court) Sounds Like Teen Spirit (Liquid Joe’s) LVL Up, Mitski (The Loading Dock) Open Mic (Pat’s Barbecue) Johnnyswim (The State Room) Karaoke (Willie’s Lounge)

Park City Karaoke With Cowboy Joe (Cisero’s) Kemosabe (Downstairs) Polish Ambassador, Liminus, Mr. Lif, Wildlight (Park City Live) Talia Keys (The Spur Bar & Grill)

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Friday 10.17 Salt Lake City Fat Candice (5 Monkeys) Monkey Knife Fight (Burt’s Tiki Lounge) One Way Johnny (Club 90) Anberlin (The Complex) Dum Dum Girls, Ex Cops (The Depot) Michael Dean (The Garage) Marinade (The Hog Wallow Pub) Dean Risko, Emerson Kennedy, Ya Boy Pell, DJ Juggy (The Hotel/Club Elevate) Aaron Behrens & the Midnight Stroll, Ranch Ghost (Kilby Court) Truce in Blood, Deny Your Faith, Tiger Fang, Towards Chaos (Liquid Joe’s) Guttermouth, Against the Grain, In the Whale, Ulteriors (The Loading Dock) Royal Bliss, October Rage, Erasmus, Par for the Curse (The Royal)

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s national attention focuses on infectious diseases around the world, a local company is trying to change the way we diagnose illness. Descue Medical, a startup based in Salt Lake City, is designing, creating, and manufacturing a new product called “iTest.” iTest is a mobile medical testing device that is powered by a smartphone. The device allows a patient to test for particular illnesses without going to a doctor’s office. “Healthcare is a basic human need,” says Christopher Pagels of Descue Medical. “For most of the world to not have access to basic medical care is a travesty. With iTest, we will level the playing field and give people the power, in their hands, to test themselves any where and anytime.” The test is relatively simple. You take a sample from your nose, mouth, or a drop of blood using a swab. You put the sample into the “c on s u m a ble ,” swirl it, and plug the consumable into the iTest. The iTest app on your phone will start an electrochemical reaction in the consumable and determine whether the sample is positive or negative for a particular illness. “It will be as reliable as a glucose meter,” says Mariel Wirthlin of Descue Medical. The Descue Medical team is passionate about their product and what it could mean about the future. “It’s about discov-

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ering opportunities to empower people with tools and resources to live happier, healthier lives,” says Andrew Pagels of Descue Medical. “We plan to target the medical industry, including nurses, volunteers, and individuals in the field,” explains Wirthlin. “We are also targeting the everyday consumer, a.k.a. ‘supermom/dad.’ Over time, we would like it to be perceived as similar to the thermometer—every household would have an iTest.” Descue Medical currently has developed disposables to test for influenza, strep throat, malaria, and Dengue fever. The team is developing tests for other illnesses, including cholesterol, and tests for sexually transmitted i n f e c t ion s . D e s c u e Medical is pursuing FDA cleara nce in the United States and the equivalent in the European Union. “Our first test will be available [to consumers] at the end of 2015,” says Wirthlin. In the coming months, Descue Medical will be launching a crowdfunding campaign to connect with future customers and give them the opportunity to preorder. For more information about Descue Medical, check them out on Twitter @ descuemedical, Facebook at https://www. facebook.com/descuemedical, or on the web at www.descue.com. n

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ARIES (March 21-April 19) New York City’s Diamond District is home to more than 2,000 businesses that buy and sell jewelry. Throughout the years, many people have lost bits of treasure here. Valuable bits of gold and gems have fallen off broken necklaces, earrings, watches and other accessories. Now, an enterprising man named Raffi Stepnanian is cashing in. Using tweezers and a butter knife, he mines for the rich pickings that are packed in the mud of sidewalk cracks and gutters. “The percentage of gold out here on the street is greater than the amount of gold you would find in a mine,” he says. I’d love to see you get inspired by his efforts, Aries. Dig for treasure in unlikely places where no one else would deign to look. TAURUS (April 20-May 20) In 1987, a college freshman named Mike Hayes was having trouble paying for his education at the University of Illinois. He appealed for help to the famous newspaper columnist Bob Greene, who asked each of his many readers to send Hayes a penny. The response was tidal. Although most of the ensuing donations were small, they added up to over $28,000—enough for Hayes to finance his degree. I encourage you to take a comparable approach in the coming weeks, Taurus: Ask for a little from a lot of different sources.

in the kindest tone possible. Third, offer a circumscribed type of support that won’t compromise your freedom or integrity. LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) In 1936, Libran author F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote about the “crack-up” he had experienced years earlier. It included this tough realization: “I had been only a mediocre caretaker of most of the things left in my hands, even my talent.” Let’s use this as a seed for your oracle. Have you been a good caretaker of your talent? Have you been a good caretaker for other things you are responsible for? Look within yourself and take inventory. If there’s anything lacking, now is an excellent time to raise your game. If you’re doing pretty well, reward yourself.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) On a late summer day in 1666, scientist Isaac Newton was sitting under an apple tree in his mother’s garden in Lincolnshire, England. An apple fell off a branch and plummeted to the ground. A half-century later, he told his biographer that this incident inspired him to formulate the theory of gravity. Fast forward to the year 2010. Astronaut Piers Sellers got on the space shuttle Atlantis carrying a piece of Newton’s apple tree. He took it with him as he escaped Earth’s gravity on his trip to the International Space Station. By my reading of the astrological GEMINI (May 21-June 20) omens, now would be an excellent time for you undertake a The word “abracadabra” is a spell that stage magicians utter at the comparable gesture or ritual, Scorpio. With a flourish, update climax of their tricks: the catalyst that supposedly makes a rabbit your relationship with an important point of origin. materialize from a hat or an assistant disappear in a puff of smoke. There’s no real sorcery. It’s an illusion perpetrated by the magician’s SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) hocus-pocus. But “abracadabra” has a less well-known history as an Most birds don’t sing unless they are up high: either flying or incantation used by real magicians to generate authentic wizardry. perched somewhere off the ground. One species that isn’t subject It can be traced back to Gnostic magi of the second century. They to this limitation is the turnstone, a brightly mottled shorebird. As and their successors believed that merely speaking the word aloud it strolls around beaches in search of food, it croons a tune that the evokes a potency not otherwise available. I invite you to experiment Cornell Lab of Ornithology calls “a short, rattling chuckle.” In the with this possibility, Gemini. Say “abracadabra” to boost your coming weeks, this creature deserves to be your mascot—or your confidence and enhance your derring-do. You already have more power animal, as they say in New Age circles. Why? I doubt that power than usual to change things that have been resistant to you will be soaring. You won’t be gazing down at the human comedy change, and intoning some playfully ferocious “abracadabras” may from a detached location high above the fray. But I expect you will be put your efforts over the top. well-grounded and good-humored—holding your own with poise amidst the rough-and-tumble. As you ramble, sing freely! CANCER (June 21-July 22) The 17th-century writer Rene Descartes is regarded as the CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) father of modern philosophy and the founder of rationalism. His Let’s discuss that thing you are eyeing and coveting and famous catchphrase is a centerpiece of the Western intellectual fantasizing about. My operative theory is that you can enjoy it tradition: “I think, therefore I am.” Here’s what I find amusing without actually having it for your own. In fact, I think it will be and alarming about the man: He read almost nothing besides best if you do enjoy it without possessing it. There’s an odd magic the Bible and the work of Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas. at play here. If this desired thing becomes a fixed part of your life, He said that classic literature was a waste of time. Is that who we it may interfere with you attracting two future experiences that want at the heart of our approach to understanding reality? I say I regard as more essential to your development. My advice is no. In accordance with the astrological omens, I authorize you to avoid getting attached to the pretty good X-factor so as to to instead adopt one or both of the following formulas: “I feel, encourage the arrival and full bloom of two stellar X-factors. therefore I am” or “I dream, therefore I am.” AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) “Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always You can’t give what you don’t have. 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